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The key insight here is that you cannot drive quality in a project like Wikipedia at the expense of driving contributors away. When people leave, who will watch
by TorKlingberg 10y ago
The key insight here is that you cannot drive quality in a project like Wikipedia at the expense of driving contributors away. When people leave, who will watch an maintain the articles? You can try to lock down even harder, but then nobody new will join, and the existing contributors will eventually churn and leave.
- JBReefer 10y ago> who will watch and maintain the articles? Exactly the people you don't want - powerhungry, fiefdom building diehards. The whole point of Wikipedia was to be a repository of our knowledge, even if there are flaws, but it just seems so pointless to contribute. I know I stopped bothering years ago.