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One hopes enlightenment will come before total darkness falls. | One hopes enlightenment will come before total darkness falls. | ||
Good idea: Have policy pages as part of [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Militia Wikipedia]. | 12 November: too bad. I would have very much liked to build the entry on the plane crash. Oh well. | ||
29 November: Good idea: Have policy pages as part of [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/The_Wikipedia_Militia Wikipedia]. | |||
Bad idea: Fear-based, military-analogy policies: "it's possible that the average newbie in this generation of contributors would be of the way-too-clueless variety, and that a significant minority would be downright malicious..." "It could be a major disaster." Save the fear-mongering for the federal government with respect to acts of terrorism, not a openly editable website. We don't need the Wikipedia equivalent of the [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act USA PATRIOT Act]. LMS needs to stop watching so much CNN. (Seriously, though, if you're in charge of a collaborative, volunteer project, and you start getting a bunker mentality, a red flag should be going up.) | Bad idea: Fear-based, military-analogy policies: "it's possible that the average newbie in this generation of contributors would be of the way-too-clueless variety, and that a significant minority would be downright malicious..." "It could be a major disaster." Save the fear-mongering for the federal government with respect to acts of terrorism, not a openly editable website. We don't need the Wikipedia equivalent of the [http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act USA PATRIOT Act]. LMS needs to stop watching so much CNN. (Seriously, though, if you're in charge of a collaborative, volunteer project, and you start getting a bunker mentality, a red flag should be going up.) | ||
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Revision as of 02:58, 30 November 2001
Good idea: test the PHP script
Bad idea: balkanize discussion.
One hopes enlightenment will come before total darkness falls.
12 November: too bad. I would have very much liked to build the entry on the plane crash. Oh well.
29 November: Good idea: Have policy pages as part of Wikipedia.
Bad idea: Fear-based, military-analogy policies: "it's possible that the average newbie in this generation of contributors would be of the way-too-clueless variety, and that a significant minority would be downright malicious..." "It could be a major disaster." Save the fear-mongering for the federal government with respect to acts of terrorism, not a openly editable website. We don't need the Wikipedia equivalent of the USA PATRIOT Act. LMS needs to stop watching so much CNN. (Seriously, though, if you're in charge of a collaborative, volunteer project, and you start getting a bunker mentality, a red flag should be going up.)