[WikiEN-l] Fwd: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision!

Mon Jan 9 18:44:19 UTC 2006

Comments from the peanut gallery.  I felt like forwarding this
somewhere, so I am.

Kelly
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: IZAK <simshalom at att.net>
Date: Jan 9, 2006 12:04 PM
Subject: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision!
To: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>

Hi Kelly:
When most people log on they are taken to the Main Page, and the
ArbCom vote link should be on EVERY article, putting it on watchlists
marginalizes it, and if you have a rule that users need to be active
for a few months then their vote won't be registered regardless of
what page they come from. At this stage it's more important to educate
new users and the public about an important vote taking place within
Wikipedia than to have the request for MONEY on every page which makes
Wikipedia look greedy after they just raised around $300,000, don't
you think? Get rid of the merchandising and commercializing junk and
mention the ArbCom stuff that is more to the core of what Wikipedia is
about, a participatory effort and not just a scheme to raise money.
Some of us are having trouble writing and editing articles with that
flashing "Dollar sign" on top of every page. I hope you understand the
importance of this. It's about the kind of image Wikipedia wants to
project about itself, an
 d someone has made a bad decision here lately it seems to me.
IZAK.