[WikiEN-l] Anti-elitism

[Poor, Edmund W]

I created a new page, this time I did it right. Angela would be proud.

[[Wikipedia:anti-elitism]] is based on a couple of Internet articles
that 
old guy, whatsisname, some philosophy professor who helped out for a few

months in Wikipedia's early days. Oh, yeah, Larry Sanger.

I was wondering where all this VFD-RFC-RFA stuff was really heading, so
I 
dipped into MeatBall, and that led me to the social dynamics of wikis - 
which ended up with Larry's critique of Wikipedia's anti-elitism.

He sees it as causing our 2 biggest problems: 
1. a perception of unreliability (justified or not)
2. an often unpleasant an even hostile working atmosphere 

Well, I'm off to my 5:30 P.M. irc meeting. Do check out the proposed
policy
page, if you're interested in the big picture. Sanger's no slouch.

Ed Poor