On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 11:30 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Everyone reading this list is probably pretty smart - Wikipedia is a nerd magnet, after all.
So I liked this blog post explaining how people fail to share:
http://www.lifebeyondcode.com/2009/12/26/why-some-smart-people-are-reluctant...
Nice. Most of my wikipedia writing is "current" - stuff I don't actually know much about, but am in the process of sharing. Because "anything is better than nothing", I have no qualms about sharing it.
Can you explain the obvious to people it isn't obvious to? With references?
Yes, I can, but it can be tedious. I'd also comment that some of the most horrible text on Wikipedia is the "obvious" or even "background thinking" level stuff, where people try and write about stuff that is totally obvious to them.
Steve