Timwi ti 2005/4/25 ChS 05:02 sia-kong:
Faraaz Damji wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote:
I imagine that this is the ideal environment for a Wikipedia, because it is easier to solve problems, I think, when you know all the people and can discuss issues in person over a latte.
Not only that, but you're probably not going to have too many personal attacks. I'd probably expect a much kinder environment with a plethora of WikiLove prancing happily in the fields ;)
Hm. I, on the other hand, am afraid that if a close circle of friends does all the work on one whole Wikipedia, it may end up glaringly POV.
That's the downside of it, isn't it? It's conceivably more difficult to tell people you know that their edits could be better, particularly if the power relation outside of Wikipedia is uneven, as in the case of a student hesitating to revert another's edit, because the latter happens to be a professor in a nearby university. In this hypothetical case it is not so much a clique of friends pushing a POV as extra-Wikipedia social norms interfering with knowledge sharing.