Jimmy Wales wrote:
it's probably philosophically good for us to
get in the habit of thinking "unless this feature is free or really
really useful, we should do without it". That is, we already have a
bad case of feature-itis, and taking a hardline on such things might
be very helpful.
Very much agree!
No more new features until jan 2004 (or so). Then allow 4 new ones or so.
Mathematics is difficult enough. Don't create more headache.
Programming / developing software IS mathematics in the end.
Let's agree on things like: no more than doubling the amount of sourcecode
within 5 years (or so).
Wikipedia-content can be self-organising very well, Wiki is great!,
but metaWiki should become more 'pre'-structured. Designing democratic
structures, institutions, etc. is also quite 'technical', this seems
the place (I have no account yet on wikipedia-l, but I'll soon get one.)
Sorry for bothering,
Pieter Suurmond