...if we overwhelm the uninformed and insecure Wikipedian at the outset with the amount and variety of material, one of two things comes into play: either we cause him to stop editing, or, with great effort, often at the cost of the doubts that so often discourage young people, we bring him soon to where he could have arrived more quickly, without much effort and without doubts, by a more comfortable route.
We have to constantly question our methods of work and explore what Wikipedia means to us. All of Wikipedia's problems and all of the editorial disputes arise from different answers to these seemingly primitive questions. Are we more folksy or more professional? Are we a dictionary, an encyclopedia, or rather an encyclopedic compendium? Are we an open community or a closed one? What does community actually mean to us? Do we value it enough to invest our time in it? Aren't our clear answers to the previous questions just empty declarations? We need to be aware that Wikipedia is a community work made up of many people in space-time. The battle for Wikipedia cannot be won here and now. We are imprinting Wikipedia with a certain form, a stamp of good and bad habits. But time and community will always overcome us in the end. Consensus, therefore, is not just an empty word, a power tool or a now-present moment. It is a moving and transmitting force that guides every communal work in space-time forward. An aggressive counter-force can slow it down or silence it, but only ever as long as it has a source. An encouraging force can develop it, but always only as long as it has a source. And every human resource is at once ephemeral and capable of procreation.
MY LANGUAGES Professional: English, Slovak, Czech Advanced: German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish Basics: Latin, Slavic languages, Italian Scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Glagolitic, Greek, Coptic.
With a break, I have been active on Wikipedia 5 years, 177 days.
I am the Slovak CEE winner for the years 2020 and 2021 and the Slovak Ambassador of Asia on Wikipedia for the years 2019, 2020 and 2022.
I am interested in religious topics and especially in the world of Eastern Christianity. On the other hand, I am only marginally interested in the post-Reformation branches of Christianity. Especially from a historical point of view I am interested in islam.
