User blog comment:Emitewiki2/An alternate proposition/@comment-4628859-20150702162056/@comment-4628859-20150705011325

Oh, yeah, of course I know your not being a jerk! Sometimes I have to keep telling people the exact same thing so they wont think I have something personal against them. People are strange in that sense when they think every word in disagreement is personal. Besides, I'm not really someone with a blazing temper and I have also learned that sometimes harsh things are done out of care. (Or maybe you stated that so others wouldn't leap to my defense, hmm?)

Anyway, you did misread what I was saying. I wasn't stating those as points of opposition, I was instead just making a statement that this was what I believe would happen after. The second paragraph you quoted was actually my belief on the motives for your alternate proposition.

I'm not objecting to the work involved. In fact, whether or not it takes a minute or a year really doesn't matter because projects are meant for a benefit, not entertainment.

You suggest that is a single person uses it, which in most cases is likely, then this project is worth it. However, then that would shift the projects benefit from not the wiki as a whole, but instead to a single or small group of individuals. This in turn would result in making it easier, if not attempting to please, a small group of individuals. As this group is already small, if some of them leave the usage of this system will drop considerably. When they do eventually leave, or considerably dwindle that it is not notable the usage, then we will end up with a standardized system standardized for the sake of being standardized and not for a practical purpose.

Projects are created for benefiting the wiki in the future, but if the future benefit is as minimal as to benefit only one person, then its gain is only personal and not universal to the wiki.

As a postscript, I'm going to be out of town for a week with no internet (because of camp), so I would greatly appreciate it if you did not start the project until then, if it does start (I will likely have points to make).