Andre Engels wrote:
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Ray Saintonge
<saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Yury Tarasievich wrote:
On 03/11/2010 11:27 AM, J.L.W.S. The Special One
wrote:
The most important question:
How can we support the Ukranian scientists who answer their government's
call to contribute?
By sending them lots of money?
On a more serious note, the WP model of
production of "NPOV" (quotes intended) is
flawed, and the scientific guys are
understandably reluctant to participate in such
process.
Gee! That's like saying that scientists don't support scientific
method.
If "spending time with every dumbass who walks in until the two of you
agree" is part of the scientific method, then indeed I don't think
that many scientists will support it.
Indeed, a better analogy of NPOV within the history of science
(rather than any of the various flavours of "Scientific Method")
would be scholasticism. Except for the fact that the worst bit
that historians of science have criticized about scholasticism
-- the wild forays into synthetic thought -- is greatly ameliorated
by wikipedias OR policy. However, the minute application of analytical
thought to the most trivial points -- which scholasticism delighted
in -- is alive and well on wikipedia ;-)
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen