User:KeithTyler/Everything is for children, Wikipedia is for grownups

E2 is for children, Wikipedia is for grownups
Kids love to play, to make a mess, to integrate everything they are doing with as much fun as possible, as well as shouting, giggling, telling jokes, picking on each other, and getting dirty.

Of course, after playing, the kids come into more formal locations and track the mud on their shoes and get their sticky handprints all over the place.

Give a group of kids a core task, and you will see that, with some supervision, they will get it somewhat done, half-decently, but not without plenty of debris or play-time residue lying about.

Without supervision, rest assured that the project will be completely forgotten about before too long, and the event of performing a task will have devolved into an excuse to play.

Eventually someone will be picked on, or have a bucket of water poured over their head, or something. And then, a more mature person will come along and reprimand the group. Perhaps the kids will be told to pick up their mess, but ultimately it will be the part of the grownups to do the actual cleaning. And since there are usually many more kids than grownups around for a kids' task, the grownup might not really feel like having to pick up after the little brats.

Now isn't it funny how both E2 and Wikipedia incorporate a strong inter-editor valuation concept... but E2 is increasingly full of popularity contests, playtime joking, and kids' mess that never gets cleaned up, and Wikipedia is increasingly full of new articles of practical, objective knowledge, and existing articles are increasingly grown to include additional seriously useful information?

Because E2 attracts people who want to play, and Wikipedia attracts people who want to do good work.