Jay Walsh writes:
Hi folks,
I have two requests for speakers in the Bay Area. [...]
Eric Goldman wrote:
> We are considering organizing a discussion panel about Wikipedia at
> Santa Clara University. As part of the panel, we may want to include a
> dedicated Wikipedia editor who can talk about the
> norms/culture/governance issue from an inside participant's
> perspective.
I was curious who this fellow is, and he appears to be a professor at
Santa Clara University who has some strong opinions on Wikipedia and a bet
with Mike Godwin that Wikipedia will collapse by 2010:
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2008/01/wikipedia_revis.htm
I don't want to dissuade anybody, as he seems like a reasonable guy with
some good points. However I'm guessing this panel will be more challenging
than the conversations we typically have with people curious about how
Wikipedia works. Were I doing it, I'd certainly prep a fair bit.
William
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