[WikiEN-l] Re: The Facebook opens for buisness

Fri Apr 30 13:14:35 UTC 2004

Well I don't know about you Timwi, but I spend several hours a day working on wikipedia, or wikibooks every day, month in month out for ages now, and I intend on doing it for the foreseeable future. I do this for no payment, and virtually no recognition. Just for the good of mankind.

I am a weirdo! 

-----Original Message-----
From: Timwi [mailto:timwi at gmx.net] 
Sent: 30 April 2004 14:07
To: wikien-l at wikipedia.org
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: The Facebook opens for buisness

mapellegrini at comcast.net wrote:

> I thought I'd let you know that the facebook ("Rogue's 
> gallery" as Andrewa humerously called it) is open at 
> [[Wikipedia:Facebook]]. It's a compilation of pictures of our 
> contributors.

The idea itself is pretty good, but the page already demonstrates that 
it doesn't really work because almost everybody is going to try to be 
special and either distort their image beyond recognition (e.g. 
LordSuryaofShropshire) or use something that barely even depicts their 
self (e.g. Anthère). To a non-Wikipedian, this kind of thing reinforces 
the belief that Wikipedia is run/controlled by a bunch of weirdos.

Timwi

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