While I agree that the article is overly negative (likely because of the
individual experience), I think it still points to an important problem. I
don't perceive this article as really problematic in terms of image. Maybe
naively, I imagine that people will not stop donating because the community
is not ideal.
pundit
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
There’s a saying that everyone likes to eat sausages but nobody likes to
know how they are made. It is not good to have negative publicity like
that during the annual donation campaign (irrespective of the motivations
of the journalist and/or the rights/wrongs of the issue being reported,
neither of which I intend to debate here). As a donation-funded
organisation, public perception matters a lot.
Kerry
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*From:* Jonathan Morgan [mailto:jmorgan@wikimedia.org]
*Sent:* Saturday, 13 December 2014 6:43 AM
*To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities
*Cc:* Kerry Raymond
*Subject:* Re: [Wiki-research-l] commentary on Wikipedia's community
behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)
I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a detailed
description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the other,
this journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully
pulpit to grind it in public.
- J
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
1000th addition to the inconsequential rant genre.
Nemo
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prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i centrum badawczego CROW
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
członek Akademii Młodych Uczonych Polskiej Akademii Nauk
członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW
Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford University Press) mojego
autorstwa
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=24010
Recenzje
Forbes:
http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
Pacific Standard:
http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
Motherboard:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
The Wikipedian:
http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge