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

Mon Jul 4 10:40:21 UTC 2005

I would like to point out that this discussion (regarding the chess
championship anyway) has already been had at [[Wikipedia talk:Chess
championship]], and, much more importantly at [[Wikipedia:Votes for
deletion/Chess championship]] where the community decided that it
should stay. This should settle the matter for the time being as these
sort of decisions should be made by the consensus in the community.

However, this being wikipedia, I understand that a vote that should
settle a matter is seldom the end of the discussion I will provide the
view from someone who does play games on the wiki.

We have seen many times that great contributors leave the project
because of the sometimes excruciating difficulties this sort of
project brings (we had one recently, if anybody recalls). Almost
universally for these users they leave because of the air of
hostility, the endless arguments and the general incivilty that,
despite our best efforts, still cripple the project.