nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqy4nygj85ggturx4nlzzmdqunaxzsallu2cltm50f37kunx0h7jcs738atu (nprofile…8atu) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqtnhc8xswac6r3psypzrrtdcv48gyvnmh9zw904auh02rmgqr0ugq42y7s4 (nprofile…y7s4) I would probably start the essay from the times before ~2008 when it was common to debate whether it's ok to have fun among wikipedians on Wikipedia/on IRC.
There's some trace of the debate in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Silly_Things for example.
"Hilariously", we had an overcorrection towards "Wikipedia is not social media" / "a forum" when people became *less* likely to use it that way, because there were other more addictive places. Mostly for elitism really, "we're serious business".
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