On 5/28/07, Cheney Shill halliburton_shill@yahoo.com wrote:
--- K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/28/07, Josh Gordon user.jpgordon@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/28/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net
wrote:
And, without the community, there is no encyclopedia.
Yeah, but. To be a dancer takes intense training, years
To be a contributer to Wikipedia takes the ability to
type, hopefully
the ability to read, and an Internet connection.
There's nothing remotely resembling a parallel.
From 8 1/2 years as a dance parent, I have to agree there's not much comparison between a Wikipedia editor and a dancer, and the closer an editor gets to being like a dancer, the less useful they are as an editor imo. This is why many of the obsessive editors burn out, simply they become less useful as they devote more extreme amounts of time to editing Wikipedia, and less time to learning anything useful to add to Wikipedia. IMO.
Yes, from 10 years as a colleague of Essjay, nobody wants a historian that's spent 20 years studying history and archeaology digs, or a doctor that's spent 6 years studying chemistry and biology and 4 in practice.
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Actually I'd even rather the more rounded doctor, the one who spent only four years or five years on chemistry and biology, then 6 years in medical school studying medicine, with year as an intern, and a residency on top of all that, then, heck, I'm an American, I like all my specialists to be fellows, too, see patients in specialty consulations, take primary and second opinion patients--the more diversity the better. My favoritet doctor was a nurser, first, that adds an even greater level of diversity. More rounded, change after a while, gain experience in one area, then put it into practice. Not sit at computer and research only via internet, then enter information.
Studying dance requires a lot, but it's different from studying medicine, it is more focused, less diverse (no matter that classical dancers are able to perform in most any technique and other dancers study classical ballet if they want to be great at something else), than most other fields of study. I'll take a ballerina who has studied nothing but classical ballet, though, over a doctor who has done nothing but study medicine any day.
KP