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I appreciate the interesting interview. However, the fact that such a major country's wikiproject is represented by only two editors is a prime example of how few editors we have.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:01, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• Yes, I feel the same way. It is disheartening to see how few editors can find the time to contribute anything except endless discussions. XOttawahitech (talk) 14:59, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

• I look at it the other way. People are busy actually editing instead of wasting time on signpost reports. -DJSasso (talk) 15:47, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

@Djsasso: If you feel reading the Signpost is a waste of time then what are you doing here? Just curious. XOttawahitech (talk) 11:09, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

I didn't say reading them was. I meant answering questions for the reports. It is a waste of time. -DJSasso (talk) 12:50, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

@Djsasso: Thanks for clarifying. You are saying that reading the Signpost wikiproject reports is interesting/worthwhile, but that participating as an interviewee is not. Did I get it right this time? XOttawahitech (talk) 16:00, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Well I generally don't read it because I personally don't find it useful. I only came to this one because of something I saw posted somewhere about it. But some people do find it useful. I would guess that many more don't find it useful. And I would hypothesize that even less people find contributing to it a good use of time. I know when they did a project I edit heavily that most people in our project didn't take part because they thought it was a waste and unlikely to get people interested in a project they weren't already editing in. -DJSasso (talk) 17:28, 19 February 2014 (UTC)

Too bad so late

Too bad this was not published when the games started. XOttawahitech (talk) 14:52, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

The timing wasn't all bad - I personally enjoyed the article all the more because the games had already prompted me to read the articles about Sochi, Adler, and so on. It was great to read something of how those articles developed, and how the coverage of the rest of Russia is developing. Also nice to hear a warm welcome to editors like me who will only visit and all too briefly edit a small part of English Wikipedia's portrayal of Russia.--Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 16:39, 13 February 2014 (UTC)