[WikiEN-l] Game-playing on Wikipedia

Sat Jul 2 23:09:23 UTC 2005

Good point. My guess is that the games make users happy, and thus more
priductive, long term. The wikipedia is a mean and rude place (the
meanest, rudest, clique-iest place I've been since middle school).
Maybe these games (which I will probably never participate in) do more
good than bad, assuming the people who play them are happy and nice.

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 7/3/05, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/2/05, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> > Nevertheless, we have recently seen quite a bit of game-playing on
> > Wikipedia. If it is not stopped now, it will continue to grow.
> <  As for referring to the people who oppose these games and
> > tournaments as "killjoys," this is a very upsetting ad hominem attack.
> 
> "You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means."
> 
>     http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Killjoy
> 
> By the way, if you are vehemetly against these games, or people
> playing N degrees of separation, do you really want to be associated
> with the Department of Fun?
> 
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FUN#Members
> 
> 
> > Jimbo has offered a place on Wikicities for people to play. He has even
> 
> I'm not sure that intense game-playing on the wiki is a great thing.
> And we can all imagine marginal ways in which doing anything but
> concretely building the encyclopedia -- editing one's own user page,
> adding to BJAODN, fooling around with personal CSS or javascript
> settings, chatting with friends about non-encyclopedic subjects --  is
> 'wasteful'.
> 
> But the interesting question is, to what extent being able to relax
> and take a break on-wiki *is* beneficial to the project.  Perhaps we
> can discuss that; does leaving content-free "Welcome back!" messages
> for others indicate one is not interested in the project's goals?
> 
> 
> --
> ++SJ
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