[WikiEN-l] Anti-elitism

[Jtkiefer]

Poor, Edmund W wrote:

>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
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Looks like an interesting topic, please don't delete the page before I 
get back from work and get a chance to look at it. :) just kidding Ed, 
definately looks like an interesting proposal.


-Jtkiefer