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The "they" who decide the content classes which will be handled by the project (enforced as rules of the wiki) are nonprofit organizations I'll never be on the
by nebabyte 10y ago
The "they" who decide the content classes which will be handled by the project (enforced as rules of the wiki) are nonprofit organizations I'll never be on the board of, so basically what cgriswald said.
- jacobolus 10y agoYour original comment can be summarized as “I bet it would be great if a bunch of other people did a few tens of thousands of hours of volunteer work to make new tools for teaching math to me.” Which as an idle speculative wish is fine as far as it goes, but has a vanishingly tiny chance of happening in whatever way you are envisioning. (Of course, various people around the world who are working on teaching math will continue to do their best, but without paying any attention to your specific desires.) If instead you said “Wow, I have this great idea that would be worth a large team of people spending a few tens of thousands of hours on. Does anyone have an idea about what kind of prototyping, political organizing, or other work I can do to start on a project like that so I can make my dream a reality? Is there anyone I should talk to about this?” Etc. that would be a much more interesting basis for further discussion, and might actually lead somewhere. The volunteers (and the tiny handful of paid staff) in charge of Wikipedia are certainly interested in new ideas for improving things. If you think it’s impossible that they’ll ever accept an improvement, and you aren’t interested in discussion, what’s the point in speculating about it?