No good, the Grinch already stole Christmas. A juggernaut of foolishness and play is bearing down on you...
Fred > The WMF has been recently backing softwares that are a breach of > "Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not" (1). Recently a totally stupid pink > heart was added to user talk pages, making people believe it is > Valentine Day everyday, with the result that Wikipedia is now being > used as a social network or a game. For example see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Alleahruiz . > > This sort of software enhances shallow relationships between people. > That might be fine for American people or americanized people but > everybody in the world is not American or Americanized or belonging to > a culture close to that one. I believe that in this world some people > value something else than shallow relationships based on US-centered > cultural codes such as a pink heart, for example trusting > relationships based on working together in the long term, using true > words really felt rather than just picking an icon on a game > interface. > > Do you know that the pink heart tool was imposed on Wikimedia COmmons > by the English speaking community without consulting other language > communities ? > > Now we are seeing the appearance of a feedback tool on the English > Wikipedia ? How long are the non-English Wikipedias going to be free > from this new stupid tool which has nothing to do with writing an > encyclopaedia ? > > Where is the usability when adding new features at a confusing hurried > rythm ? > > (1) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_blog.2C_webspace_provider.2C_social_network.2C_or_memorial_site > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
