Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I was wondering where all this VFD-RFC-RFA stuff was really heading, so I dipped into MeatBall, and that led me to the social dynamics of wikis - which ended up with Larry's critique of Wikipedia's anti-elitism.
He sees it as causing our 2 biggest problems:
- a perception of unreliability (justified or not)
Obviously.
- an often unpleasant an even hostile working atmosphere
Yeah right. Like the editorial boards of academic journals, conference committees and such are all friendly and peaceful.
Chl
Wikipedia is starting to get unpleasant.
On 8/5/05, Chris Lüer chris@zandria.net wrote:
Poor, Edmund W wrote:
I was wondering where all this VFD-RFC-RFA stuff was really heading, so I dipped into MeatBall, and that led me to the social dynamics of wikis - which ended up with Larry's critique of Wikipedia's anti-elitism.
He sees it as causing our 2 biggest problems:
- a perception of unreliability (justified or not)
Obviously.
- an often unpleasant an even hostile working atmosphere
Yeah right. Like the editorial boards of academic journals, conference committees and such are all friendly and peaceful.
Chl
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