[WikiEN-l] Userbox compromise proposal (Was: Proposal on userbox disagreement)

Sat Jan 7 17:14:24 UTC 2006

On 07/01/06, Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/5/06, Ben Yates <bluephonic at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > To save this from double-posthood, this is a kind of cool development
> > -- the userspace is coming into its own as a separate construct from
> > the encyclopedia.
>
> Why is this cool?

I think he means "cool" in the sense of "particularly interesting",
rather than "beneficial". Wikipedia is not a social experiment, but
sometimes it behaves like an undirected one when we're not looking.

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