April Fool contest idea (was Re: [WikiEN-l] Friday's featured article)

Wed Mar 30 14:43:08 UTC 2005

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:51:13 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> How
> does this help us create the encyclopedia? How can you justify *encouraging*
> people to create bogus entries?

To answer your rhetorical question: Sometimes allowing a small amount
of playfulness can help motivate people to remain dedicated to the
project.  To put it another way, requiring 100% seriousness 100% of
the time might push away editors and do more harm than good.