I see that quote all over. :) It's kind of funny to me because it
often seems to be used in a way that encourages the idea that
wikipedia working is mysterious and magical. As an academic it seems
like a pretty plain and straightforward statement: Our theories don't
seem to account for this, so there's more work to be done on our
theories. Yay.
(I actually think there's a significant body of theory we can use to
explain a lot of what's going on in Wikipedia, but it's distributed
among different disciplines with different vocabularies and difficult
to synthesize. :) )
On 8/30/07, Desilets, Alain <Alain.Desilets(a)nrc-cnrc.gc.ca> wrote:
Check: WP:ACST
for a list of articles with abstracts. There
should be a few suitable.
Sorry, what does WP:ACST?
"The problem about Wikipedia is, that it
just works in
reality, not in
theory."
BTW: I love that quote. Is it yours? I'll be using it a lot in the future!
----
Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada
Chair, WikiSym 2007
2007 International Symposium on Wikis
Wikis at Work in the World:
Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century
http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/
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