[WikiEN-l] Re: Game-playing on Wikipedia

Mon Jul 4 12:38:49 UTC 2005

Oskar Sigvardsson (oskarsigvardsson at gmail.com) [050704 20:44]:

> This is a natural consequence of wikipedia, because virtually all
> discussions on wikipedia are about disputes. You don't put something
> on a talk-page if you agree with them, and you don't start an RFC
> either.

Hmm, that's a good point.

> The chess championship is a way for users to interact in a way that is
> not related to disputes.

I do see your point on this. It's why some people complain of an "IRC
clique" - i.e., IRC habitues tend to know each other as reasonable folk to
chat to, so form a picture of each other as humans rather than nametags on
disagreements. In-person wikimeets do this too. Interesting. Do the various
Collaboration Of The Week projects have any similar effect? What else does?

- d.