On 13 Mar 2007 at 17:06, "Steve Bennett" stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
In a book or newspaper, the editor has the final word. No Wikipedia *ever* has the final word. From a functional perspective, "real" editors and Wikipedia editors are similar. From an authority perspective, they're vastly different. And it's the authority side that is misreported all the time in newspapers.
So I guess the terminology is Wikipedia's "geek bias" showing up again... geeks tend to think of things in terms of the "functional perspective", while the outside world is more into power, authority, politics, personalities, and such.
On 3/13/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
So I guess the terminology is Wikipedia's "geek bias" showing up again... geeks tend to think of things in terms of the "functional perspective", while the outside world is more into power, authority, politics, personalities, and such.
Well, yeah. When you read "Joe Bloggs, an editor at The Times, said...", do you think "wow, that must be an interesting job, I wonder what software he uses", or "he's obviously important, I wonder what he has to say".
Wait. What would *most people* think? :)
Steve, who swore he would drop this topic.