Daniel Pink's WIRED article about Wikipedia, "the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future," has hit the shelves.
Titled "The Book Stops Here", the six-page piece opens with a picture of Jimbo gazing levelly over a large stack of Britannica volumes and -- are those the 2001 Florida Statues? It follows up with a set of beautiful sketches of six active wikipedians (Angela, Bryan Derksen, Carptrash, Kingturtle, Ram-Man, and Raul654), whose stories are woven into the article.
Pink deals quite well with the nuances and motivations of the en: community, and the Wikipedia healing factor. However he all but ignores other languages (the article's one real flaw), and makes no mention of Wikimedia, New York, or other gatherings. He also demonstrates a Pelligrinesque affection for the term "God-King" (the subject is a quote from the article).
More : http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2005/02/17#a797
Cheers, SJ
Thanks, SJ! I'll have to pick up a copy, since "I Was There"!
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:07:56 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Pink's WIRED article about Wikipedia, "the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future," has hit the shelves.
Titled "The Book Stops Here", the six-page piece opens with a picture of Jimbo gazing levelly over a large stack of Britannica volumes and -- are those the 2001 Florida Statues? It follows up with a set of beautiful sketches of six active wikipedians (Angela, Bryan Derksen, Carptrash, Kingturtle, Ram-Man, and Raul654), whose stories are woven into the article.
Pink deals quite well with the nuances and motivations of the en: community, and the Wikipedia healing factor. However he all but ignores other languages (the article's one real flaw), and makes no mention of Wikimedia, New York, or other gatherings. He also demonstrates a Pelligrinesque affection for the term "God-King" (the subject is a quote from the article).
More : http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2005/02/17#a797
Cheers, SJ
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Sj wrote:
Whaddayamean, the God-King is fallible!?
As an interesting data point relating to quality vs EB, I've been going through 1911EB articles thought not to be in WP (about half just need a redir), and cross-checking with present-day EB at the same time - it's remarkable how some present-day EB articles are nearly word-for-word identical with their 1911 versions, except for being shortened by leaving out detail, references, and citations, tsk tsk.
My current favorite is Felix Faure, who in 1911EB "died of apoplexy", in present-day EB "died suddenly", while in WP we also find out just what he was doing at the moment of death, heh-heh, plus we have an article on the woman he was doing it with, she having a life story of her own.
Stan
As I recall from the Dune books, a real God-Emperor goes around on a sort of trolley. We can't deny Jimbo the prescience, but I think the transformation to sandworm will take work.
Charles
Haven't read the article yet, but I thought "benevolent dictator" was the term of choice. Not that I think Jimbo isn't God-like.
Google: site:mail.wikipedia.org benevolent dictator - 16 hits site:mail.wikipedia.org god-king - 1 hit
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:07:56 -0500, Sj 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Pink's WIRED article about Wikipedia, "the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future," has hit the shelves.
Titled "The Book Stops Here", the six-page piece opens with a picture of Jimbo gazing levelly over a large stack of Britannica volumes and -- are those the 2001 Florida Statues? It follows up with a set of beautiful sketches of six active wikipedians (Angela, Bryan Derksen, Carptrash, Kingturtle, Ram-Man, and Raul654), whose stories are woven into the article.
Pink deals quite well with the nuances and motivations of the en: community, and the Wikipedia healing factor. However he all but ignores other languages (the article's one real flaw), and makes no mention of Wikimedia, New York, or other gatherings. He also demonstrates a Pelligrinesque affection for the term "God-King" (the subject is a quote from the article).
More : http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/sj/2005/02/17#a797
Cheers, SJ
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--- Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Haven't read the article yet, but I thought "benevolent dictator" was the term of choice. Not that I think Jimbo isn't God-like.
'GodKing' in wiki circles is not a term of endearment:
"Kings that are so arrogant that they suppose they are "god". A GodKing is a site owner or administrator who uses their special authority more than absolutely necessary. Wikis (especially MeatBall) generally frown on this sort of thing, so any such use may be considered an abuse. A GodKing is a bad thing (an AntiPattern; see CategoryRole)."
Cite: http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?GodKing
That does not describe Jimbo at all.
--mav
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