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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