[WikiEN-l] Re: #wikipedia-en-admins

Tue Jan 24 01:24:13 UTC 2006

On 1/23/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Nathan Russell wrote:
> > On 1/22/06, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Try #wikipedia.
> >
> >
> > My personal experience of #wikipedia is that it tends to have a lot of
> > off-topic socialization, and on-topic discussion tends to be lost in
> > the scrolling.
> >
> > #wikimedia and #wikipedia-en tend to be better.
> >
> > Nathan aka Pakaran
> > _______________________________________________
>
> As a note.... #wikimedia is a channel dedicated to Foundation issues.
> Recently, we noticed more and more editors leaking from the #wikipedia
> channel and discussing english wikipedia issues on the Foundation channel.
>
> Please, try to avoid doing that generally. And keep discussions in the
> channel specifically dedicated. It will be very helpful for all.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ant

I think that may be a symptom of the problem that is #wikipedia's general
unwillingness to be on topic.  People are going to go where they can have a
serious discussion, whether or not that's the right place for it.

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I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.