[WikiEN-l] Is editing for payment a fundamentally problematic conflict of...

[Bartning at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2007 10:53:32 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
nobs03 at gmail.com writes:

On  3/7/07, Bartning at aol.com <Bartning at aol.com>  wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 3/5/2007 11:15:29 A.M.  Pacific Standard Time,
> michaeldavid86 at comcast.net  writes:
>
> This is  very much the way a hospital functions:  A combination of paid
> staff
> and  volunteers working  together to accomplish the same goal - the best
> patient  care  possible. How these two groups get along in there
> interactions
>  is what  a culture is all about. Acceptance of this culture  requires
> maturity
> on the  part of the individual  participants - and care and nurturing
> by   all.
>
>
>
> > to  mention
>  inappropriate because it's unfair.  We've got to think outside the   box -
> come up
> with something new.
>
> Granted I've  experienced a wannabe psychiatric-nurse admin, but the
> mental-health  system's not supposed to fold in on itself for every reason
> in  the
> book, Murphy's Law to the extreme where ignorance and knowledge  both lead
> to
> dysfunction.
>
> Many hospitals are  nonprofit, but non-profit organizations themselves also
> have  structures.  We're going to get regional biases besides, being an
>  international encyclopedia.  Has anyone suggested separating   Wikipedia by
> country
> rather than language, not that it would  help mind  you?>
>
> Vincent Bartning
> UN: John  Wallace Rich
>
>  


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The point here is paid employees  of a non-profit entity with an agenda
evidenced by initiating internal  processes of dispute resolution.  This is
something not addressed in  any policies anywhere.  ( 1 ) They are agents of
a non-profit entity;  ( 2 ) volunteers in dispute have no disclosure as to *
whom* they are in  dispute with; ( 3 ) the dispute may not be initiated for
the purposes of  improving articles or writing an encyclopedia; ( 4 ) what
protections do  volunteer editors, acting in good faith, have against being
targeted and  publicly defamed by a non-profit entity with a  political
agenda?



Nobs03:
 
We're talking about structure of Wikipedia, not those who contribute  here.   
 _michaeldavid86 at comcast.net_ (mailto:michaeldavid86 at comcast.net)   suggested 
a hospital analogy, and I responded.
 
Vincent
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