Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 11:56:08 -0400
From: michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 10/7/07 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com wrote:
>> Then the community isn't rational - that doesn't really surprise me.
>
> Wikipedia is an emotional community - not a rational one.
> Whether this is acceptable is up to the Community itself.
on 10/7/07 11:40 AM, Steve Summit at scs(a)eskimo.com wrote:
Remember, too, that Wikipedia is supposed to be a community
second (or, idealistically, not at all) and an encyclopedia-
writing project first.
The nice thing about all this emotional hand-wringing policy
stuff is that a lot of the time, you can just ignore it (well,
as long as you're not reading this mailing list, anyway :-) )
and get on with the task of writing the encyclopedia.
You miss a huge point here, Steve. An "encyclopedia-writing project" is
a
collaboration of a community of people. And the quality of that
collaboration is, to a great degree, dependent upon the emotional state and
interaction of that community.
Like it or not, Wikipedia is not a refuge from having to deal with people.
Marc
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