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

Mon Jan 9 19:03:51 UTC 2006

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I got the same message.

Kelly Martin stated for the record:

> 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.
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