[WikiEN-l] FW: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

[Marc Riddell]

Very appropriate to this discussion.

MR
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From: Eddie Tejeda <eddie at visudo.com>
Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:57:44 -0700
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social
production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the character
traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research
psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70
non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts
it<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedian
s-grumpy-and-closedminded.html>,
Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new
ideas."'
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php

I wonder how the mailing list will react....
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