Hah. I remember joining it to write a bunch of stuff about a game, which immediately got removed.
I of course immediately left.
What is with these "encyclopedias of everything" that don't want frivolous information?
I of course immediately left.
What is with these "encyclopedias of everything" that don't want frivolous information?
>> “I don’t have a problem with roads,” Zeleny said. “There are lots of obscure subjects on Wikipedia, but you have to follow the guidelines. People see Wikipedia as a joke. They think it’s not serious. I’ve taken great, great pains to make sure articles are well written, well researched, and well cited.”
Or maybe more precisely, people's desire to believe the thing they're volunteering vast amounts of their personal time to matters and is serious, and because it's serious there should be rules.
I also believe that Wikipedia is important and the work contributers do there matters.
Your comment makes it sound like you disagree.
But that also leads to myoptic views of projects in super-volunteers, where the intent of the project to users gets lost in performance of the rules.
I'm not sure this is a solveable problem for volunteer-based projects though. There are only so many people willing to donate time, and you have to keep them happy.
I think it would be cool if there was something that saved all contributions, even deleted ones, and made it easy to explore all of them. I know Wikipedia has a diff history but that's not the right interface to bring all that to the surface.
Looking forward to the next collaborative scrapbook to start up so I can participate in good faith and have some good fun :D