[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors}

[David Gerard]

On 3 February 2011 11:26, Mark <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:

> What about Wikipedia's culture actually led to an encyclopedia being
> written, with a lot of good information, and a fairly neutral tone for
> the most part?


Nerds are obsessive about things being right and not wrong. This leads
to most things about Wikipedia.


> That's something Nupedia didn't succeed in, and on the
> second point is something even most academic-press books don't succeed
> in--- the median overview book on a subject sneaks in quite a bit of
> opinion and original research, and sometimes even digs at academic
> opponents if the editors let them get away with it, which is why you
> can't really read an academic book without *also* reading a few
> journals' reviews of it.


NPOV is IMO W