On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:35 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 2:57 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 August 2010 17:52, David Moran
<fordmadoxfraud(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, right. That's kind of what I mean.
These things happened to
Citizendium because credentialism is the natural outcome of trying to create
a system of valuing a certain class of contributors more than others.
I was amazed just how actively negative credentialism could be -
Shirky posited it as merely putting a dead weight on the project, not
actually driving it backwards. Did anyone actually predict it would
result in CZ becoming a crank magnet?
If anyone wanted to advocate credentialism on Wikimedia projects,
they'd first have to work out how to fix the pseudoscience problem on
CZ.
Irony. David Gerard disparaging CZ using a rationalwiki page as evidence.
Pseudo-science, pseudo-humanities, etc are no stranger to Wikipedia,
and our processes have not always been victorious over it. Simply
put, the rubbish on Wikipedia outweights the rubbish on CZ, and I
suspect that an academically sound study would indicate that,
proportionally speaking, Wikipedia pollutes the interweb more than CZ.
Compare the rationalwiki page for CZ and WP. I wonder how large their
WP page would be if a similar level of critical analysis was applied.
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John Vandenberg