[Foundation-l] Projekt: OpenCritics (let's free subjective content, too!!)

[David Goodman]

People who want to write reviews of this sort generally want to
propagandize either for or against something they have strong
feelings about.  The susceptibility of a project like this to
campaigning and cabalism is so great, that i doubt a community run
project could maintain objectivity.  We have enough problem doing it
at Wikipedia when the avowed purpose is to NOT offer opinion.  I think
maintaining NPOV --or anything like it--in this situation will be
impossible.

I'd like to see someone try nevertheless. I certainly am not opposing
the project. But it should not be us--we should keep far away from
that.

David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG



On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Gay<joshuagay at gmail.com> wrote:
> So, I think that such a project works well with the concept of NPOV. I think
> you can break the site into two distinct parts.
>
> Part 1: You collect opinions of various sorts in various ways.
> Part 2: You organize them in terms of their relative significance to each
> other and summarize them in a disinterested voice.
>
> This would be a lot like Wikibooks and Wikipedia; people write stuff on
> Wikibooks and then people cite those books on Wikipedia.
>
> -Josh
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Victor Vasiliev <vasilvv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sage Ross wrote:
>> > I think this is an excellent, long overdue idea and something
>> > Wikimedia should be interested in.  I was actually thinking of
>> > proposing something like this at strategy.wikimedia.org (and may still
>> > do so).
>> >
>>
>> I don't think that creating such a project within Wikimedia would be a
>> great idea. NPOV is one of the most important Wikimedia principles.
>>
>> --vvv
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