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Humankind's inherent love of rules and order? >> “I don’t have a problem with roads,” Zeleny said. “There are lots of obscure subjects on Wikipedia, but you ha
by ethbr1 3y ago
Humankind's inherent love of rules and order?
>> “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.
- Cipater 3y agoI agree that people contributing to Wikipedia should take it seriously. I also believe that Wikipedia is important and the work contributers do there matters. Your comment makes it sound like you disagree.
- ethbr1 3y agoI think it's unreasonable to treat people's volunteer efforts lightly. Nobody gives massive amount of personal time to something they don't really care about. 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.