[Wikipedia-l] Re: Enough for now

Tue Nov 12 21:53:58 UTC 2002

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>On Monday 11 November 2002 09:39 pm, wikipedia-l-request at wikipedia.org wrote:
>
>>Well, folks, I've had enough for now.  I can't continue these
>>conversations, because they are taking far too much of my time; I couldn't
>>do them justice if I wanted to.  You also won't see me much anytime soon
>>on Wikipedia itself.  I really do apologize to those (few, no doubt) who
>>thought I was a positive influence recently.  I wish I had the time,
>>energy, and patience to continue, and I hope you'll keep fighting the good
>>fight.
>>
Just like a philosopher! :-)   He seeds the newsgroup with prolix 
thoughts to consider, and sits back to watch us argue.

>There were a hell of a lot of posts on Monday but that was probably due to 
>en.wiki being down and everybody flooding the mailing list because they 
>didn't have anything else to do. 
>
Clearly a symptom of acute wikiholism!  My mailbox was clear before I 
went to bed, and there were 77 new messages when I woke up.

>One thing that Wikipedia lacks right now is credibility and reliability. One 
>thing that projects like Nupedia has is a lack of material and contributors. 
>The new project you are working on will add credibility to many Wikipedia 
>articles and thus dramatically improve their usefullness. 
>
They need each other for those very reasons.  Together they reflect the 
interplay between quantity and quality - an infinite series which 
hopefully converges.  
Eclecticology

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