--- "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
Not rambling, Steve, that was a darn good rant!
Aw shucks, Ed. Thanks.
Our community of volunteer writers still have not developed sufficient dedication to avoiding bias and incivility. This might be due (in part) to a lingering sense of anarchistic idealism.
Well, in any case, for anyone (newbies, etc) who may not quite understand the fragility of the project--any number of "anarchist" tendencies can take root.
Steve and I have revived the Mediation Committee (Mgm asked me to co-chair). I'm trying to wrap up
two >VERY DIFFICULT article mediations before my vacation >tomorrow.
...comes down to:
- "I want the web site to reflect my own ideas,
feelings and desires."
I.e. the simple and basic lack of individual understanding or fidelity to NPOV concepts has become a broad systematic problem. Hence the notion of an NPOV committee remains something to think about.
Nonetheless, we've done an outstanding job. We've
got the world's attention, but we need to figure
out how to take it to the next level.
Jolly good. And "next level" of course doesnt mean a "pushing to 1.0" mentality, or even any "commercially-funded real-time-DB-access paid-academic-supervised Wikipedia-fork," but rather a simple refocus on the encyclopedia as the main objective.
SV
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