On 5/28/07, Cheney Shill <halliburton_shill(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
--- K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, Josh Gordon
<user.jpgordon(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/28/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net>
wrote:
And, without the community, there is no encyclopedia.
Yeah, but. To be a dancer takes intense training, years
To be a contributer to Wikipedia takes the ability to
type, hopefully
the ability to read, and an Internet
connection.
There's nothing remotely resembling a parallel.
From 8 1/2 years as a dance parent, I have to agree
there's not much
comparison between a Wikipedia editor and a dancer, and
the closer an editor
gets to being like a dancer, the less useful they are as
an editor imo.
This is why many of the obsessive editors burn out,
simply they become less
useful as they devote more extreme amounts of time to
editing Wikipedia, and
less time to learning anything useful to add to
Wikipedia. IMO.
Yes, from 10 years as a colleague of Essjay, nobody wants a
historian that's spent 20 years studying history and
archeaology digs, or a doctor that's spent 6 years studying
chemistry and biology and 4 in practice.
~~Pro-Lick
Actually I'd even rather the more rounded doctor, the one who spent only
four years or five years on chemistry and biology, then 6 years in medical
school studying medicine, with year as an intern, and a residency on top of
all that, then, heck, I'm an American, I like all my specialists to be
fellows, too, see patients in specialty consulations, take primary and
second opinion patients--the more diversity the better. My favoritet doctor
was a nurser, first, that adds an even greater level of diversity. More
rounded, change after a while, gain experience in one area, then put it into
practice. Not sit at computer and research only via internet, then enter
information.
Studying dance requires a lot, but it's different from studying medicine, it
is more focused, less diverse (no matter that classical dancers are able to
perform in most any technique and other dancers study classical ballet if
they want to be great at something else), than most other fields of study.
I'll take a ballerina who has studied nothing but classical ballet, though,
over a doctor who has done nothing but study medicine any day.
KP