[WikiEN-l] He speaks sooth about Wikipedia

Tue May 31 21:15:19 UTC 2005

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>Message: 5
>Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:28:04 +0100
>From: "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com>
>Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
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>Skyring wrote

>>Somewhere along the way, Wikipedia seems to have lost something
>>valuable. I look at this list and just about everything I see is one
>>group of editors bickering with another group.

>We gained ... an encyclopedia: 500000 articles in March, 10% added
smoothly
>since then.

>Nobody should kid themselves that there was ever a golden time when there
>was no 'bickering'.  If you look at the traffic numbers you see huge
growth.
>Every month or so an asocial user kicking up a fuss about the way things
are
>handled... it's the price we pay for being a radically open community.
>Remember, this is a big volunteer project; all that happens is that some
>people simply make it too hard for them to be accepted as volunteers.

>Charles

How true that is.