From: "the wub"
<thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:08:21 +0000
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] psychosis and wikipedia.
On 10/01/07, Christopher Thieme <cdthieme(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'd love to see some psychology-oriented individual do a case study on
what
kind of people are attracted to editing on Wikipedia. What psychological
defects lurk behind the computer screens and the keyboards. Why do I ask?
Because in the last month (including right now), I've gotten in spats,
edit
wars, content disputes, with people who would be poster children for
narcissitic personality disorder and one of several temporal lobe
disorders,
respectively.
Something like that would probably explain a lot about the bitterness,
control issues, the incessant desire to be "right", etc. that some people
have when approaching the subject of editing.
There's an interesting article on the BBC website about "psychopathic
traits" in the workplace, that seems to have jumped up their most e-mailed
list today despite being from 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3579402.stm
--
the wub
Yes! These types of studies, and this type of clinical work has been going
on for some years now.
Helping companies and other organizations recognize and manage pathologies
in their organizational culture has been the bulk of my own work for several
years now.
And the problems arenĀ¹t confined just to the workplace. All of it goes home.
The last hour of work is the first hour of home; and the last hour of home
is the first hour of work.
Marc Riddell
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