[WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again

[Ray Saintonge]

Steve Summit wrote:
> Marc Riddell wrote:
>   
>> on 10/7/07 11:04 AM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dalton at gmail.com wrote:
>>     
>>> Then the community isn't rational - that doesn't really surprise me.
>>>       
>> Wikipedia is an emotional community - not a rational one.
>> Whether this is acceptable is up to the Community itself.
>>     
> Remember, too, that Wikipedia is supposed to be a community
> second (or, idealistically, not at all) and an encyclopedia-
> writing project first.
>   
One could get into a lot of semantic issues here.  There is a community 
whose primary objective is to build an encyclopedia.  We can too easily 
confuse ourselves when we try to equate the two.
> The nice thing about all this emotional hand-wringing policy
> stuff is that a lot of the time, you can just ignore it (well,
> as long as you're not reading this mailing list, anyway :-) )
> and get on with the task of writing the encyclopedia.
Is there no salvation for those of us who regularly follow the mailing 
list(s)? :'(

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