--- 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. We'd much prefer a kid tell us what 4 out of 5 unnamed dentists recommend on a commercial site for a large corporation selling pharmaceuticals and spending money on motivational speakers to keep employee morale high. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morale
As Stephen Colbert said in an interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales: "What I love about it is that it brings democracy to information. For too long, the elites that study things got to say what is or isn't real." - The Colbert Report, 2007.05.24
That's why it's far better to keep guys like Wolfy happy and doing a heckuva job than cut-and-run Japanese government officials hanging themselves over a little $236,000 bookkeeping fraud. Just ask Paul Wolfowitz. He'll tell you the $400,000 he received to step down as the World Bank president kept his morale and terrorist fighting productivity high.
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