I don't want to spoil your fun (and this
is admittedly lots of fun :-) ), but I suspect this page is a bad idea. It encourages the idea that we ought to distinguish ourselves based on our seniority, as opposed to our ability to write good articles, which is what
really matters. I think we ought to do our best to underemphasize seniority, which can be used, often illegitimately, as a way of deciding who to accord how much respect. Of course, sometimes how long someone has been here
does bear on, for example, how well they understand Wikipedia policy and why Wikipedia works as it does. But it
doesn't bear on much else.
For "historical" purposes :-) , perhaps we should each keep a record on our own personal pages of when we arrived. That should do the trick, eh? Having the data all on one page invites comparison, thus the above-mentioned problem. --LMS
Its kind of wierd for me because I wrote some stuff long before I saw the light and became a "member". Its kind of an elitist thing to be able to put yourself before a bunch of people on the list, but I honestly can't remember! I first made an entry when it showed up on that banner on
http://www.bomis.com. When would that be roughly? Does anyone know?
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Alan D
One more thing to add to what I wrote above. C'mon guys, let's not take ourselves too damn seriously. Sure, Wikipedia might take over the world of encyclopedias. Yes, it's possible. But nobody knows how probable it is, and frankly, given what an
unusual thing that would be, I have to grudgingly admit that it's pretty damn improbable. Besides, I don't see a great need to do 24th century historians' work for them. Heck, by then, artificial intelligence will be able to construct the database in a millisecond, based on ancient, archived personal pages.
Besides all that, I really do think the only reason why this page is so much fun is precisely that it sort of creates a pecking order of sorts. Let us resist that as much as possible. --LMS
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