--- K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, Josh Gordon
<user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)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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