Poor, Edmund W (Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com) [050721 23:56]:
A lot of problems Wikipedia has comes down to:
- "I want the web site to reflect my own ideas, feelings and desires."
This comes into endless conflict with our stated mission of creating an unbiased yet comprehensive free encyclopedia. Nonetheless, we've done an outstanding job. We've got the world's attention, but we need to figure out how to take it to the next level.
We're having fun with this on [[WP:SCN]] (a Scientology wikiproject). You have the views of the CoS members and the views of the critics, and they're basically almost utterly incompatible. But NPOV is achievable! With great effort! (Also, we have a recently ex-member who's doing a great job on the articles about the "tech", i.e. the substance of the religion itself.) [[Xenu]] is achieving widespread fame in the blogosphere, and is being quoted (uncredited) in just about every recent press article on Tom Cruise's proselytisation for the Church. So we're getting just a little attention. I'm sure we'll weather it, and Wikipedia's immune systems appear to be kicking in just fine in at least one case ...
- d.