In a message dated 3/5/2007 11:15:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, michaeldavid86@comcast.net writes:
This is very much the way a hospital functions: A combination of paid staff and volunteers working together to accomplish the same goal - the best patient care possible. How these two groups get along in there interactions is what a culture is all about. Acceptance of this culture requires maturity on the part of the individual participants - and care and nurturing by all.
<I don't think that's a good analogy in this day and age. "In Wikipedia, the patients run the hospital" has become a worn out cliche, not to mention inappropriate because it's unfair. We've got to think outside the box - come up with something new.
Granted I've experienced a wannabe psychiatric-nurse admin, but the mental-health system's not supposed to fold in on itself for every reason in the book, Murphy's Law to the extreme where ignorance and knowledge both lead to dysfunction.
Many hospitals are nonprofit, but non-profit organizations themselves also have structures. We're going to get regional biases besides, being an international encyclopedia. Has anyone suggested separating Wikipedia by country rather than language, not that it would help mind you?>
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On 3/7/07, Bartning@aol.com Bartning@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/5/2007 11:15:29 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, michaeldavid86@comcast.net writes:
This is very much the way a hospital functions: A combination of paid staff and volunteers working together to accomplish the same goal - the best patient care possible. How these two groups get along in there interactions is what a culture is all about. Acceptance of this culture requires maturity on the part of the individual participants - and care and nurturing by all.
<I don't think that's a good analogy in this day and age. "In Wikipedia, the patients run the hospital" has become a worn out cliche, not to mention inappropriate because it's unfair. We've got to think outside the box - come up with something new.
Granted I've experienced a wannabe psychiatric-nurse admin, but the mental-health system's not supposed to fold in on itself for every reason in the book, Murphy's Law to the extreme where ignorance and knowledge both lead to dysfunction.
Many hospitals are nonprofit, but non-profit organizations themselves also have structures. We're going to get regional biases besides, being an international encyclopedia. Has anyone suggested separating Wikipedia by country rather than language, not that it would help mind you?>
Vincent Bartning UN: John Wallace Rich
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The point here is paid employees of a non-profit entity with an agenda evidenced by initiating internal processes of dispute resolution. This is something not addressed in any policies anywhere. ( 1 ) They are agents of a non-profit entity; ( 2 ) volunteers in dispute have no disclosure as to * whom* they are in dispute with; ( 3 ) the dispute may not be initiated for the purposes of improving articles or writing an encyclopedia; ( 4 ) what protections do volunteer editors, acting in good faith, have against being targeted and publicly defamed by a non-profit entity with a political agenda?