Very appropriate to this discussion.
MR ---------- From: Eddie Tejeda eddie@visudo.com Reply-To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:57:44 -0700 To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@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 ithttp://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.... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l