[Search-l] Sorry to do this but its coming, yes a rant :-(

[Mark (Markie)]

re sending in case it was missed, from 4/5 days ago, maybe the people copied
in (wikia staff/founders) would be willing to give a small amount of time to
reply?!?

mark

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark (Markie) <newsmarkie at googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:13 PM
Subject: Sorry to do this but its coming, yes a rant :-(
To: Mailing list for Search Wikia <search-l at wikia.com>, Search Wiki <
searchwiki at wikia.com>, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>, jer <
jeremie at jabber.org>, dennis at igfoo.com


Right, im afraid the time has come once again where i have been wondering to
my self again, and i feel that things need to be said, so here they are.

*Whats happening with the project.  AFAIK overall (and i know somethings
have happened) but *very* little seems to have happened since the launch.
Now i know that things are probably happening with the team, but any chance
of actually telling the users about this, cos its not looking good from here
atm.

Ive copied in the so called pillars of search


   1. *Transparency* - riiiiiiight :-(
   2. *Community* - hmmm contribute to stale projects?
   3. *Quality* - well....
   4. *Privacy <http://search.wikia.com/wiki/search:Privacy>* - hmm yes
   that seems to have been done to an extent ( by the community mind)


Ive been on the project since dec 2006, and so have been waiting along time
for this to happen, so its not purely a case of i want everything to happen
NOW, i just want it to look like SOMETHING will happen SOON.

*This brings me onto the next topic of where is the project going??? There
has been practically no progress, and frankly i cant see much being done
from my point.  The launch has happened, many people were interested,
contributed but have now left, because NOTHING has happened. so overall the
net gain of launching the project?? bad press and a few (relative to the
web) minis.

*Many things have been promised by various people, which havent happened.
Most specifically this has come from a certain member of staff, one
specifically, that has said that they will do many things, but even the most
basic of tasks seem to have not happened. so Broken/missed promises. Well
iirc (name here) said he would make sure that the about pages etc were
created, hmm... (http://alpha.search.wikia.com/about.html in case you forgot
where those were).  This is a wikia project, any chance of getting ANY
involvement/input/co-ordination from the team who, ultimately, want us to
make them more successfull and a profit (if were being frank).

Now i know i havent been that active recently on the wiki, but i have been
reading the mailing lists and talking in irc, but the main reason for me not
being active on the wiki, is mainly the fact that i just dont have the
motivation to do anything because of the above.  Frankly atm its a stale
project, but hopefully this rant (which i hate doing) will mean that the
project will hopefully become better.

If i have offended anyone above then i am sorry, but i feel that certain
things need to be said right now, in order to make the project better, which
is my aim.

Many thanks and look forward to the responses to this, especially from wikia
staff

Regards

mark

(user:Markie)
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