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@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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