>From: "Larry Sanger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [Citizendium-l] Editorial dispute resolution >Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:53:26 -0700 >Jon later suggested that perhaps we're trying to be "somehow exempt from >the >norms of the outside world," which is just completely wrong (at least, >about >*my* views). The problem is there is no pre-established way to apply "the >norms of the outside world" to something that has never been tried before, >at least on the scale we envision: to have experts collectively manage a >large body of encyclopedia articles written in "the wiki way." > >David Goodman had a couple of intriguing suggestions. First, we should >avoid "over-defining process" and "not making the process a formal part of >CZ." That sounds similar to Jon's suggestion, and I have the same >reaction. >*If* we are to allow editors to make decisions about articles in their >areas >of specialization, *and* no editors are assigned to particular articles, so >that collaborating editors will inevitably have to arrive at decisions >about >the same articles *jointly*, then it seems we can't not have *some* sort of >process for settling disputes. If we leave the process undefined, then it >seems we end up with Wikipedia's faux solution: we insist that people come >to a mutually agreeable decision (even when they can't), so that the >decision will be whatever the most *stubborn* editor wants it to be.
Perhaps this "most stubborn" problem is an inescapable consequence of the ideal of a truly self-regulating, self-selecting process. But perhaps this consequence is not all that bad. It seems to me possible that if Wikipedia had made it so that this consequence occurred only if we saw Ph.D's trying to outlast other Ph.D's (instead of Ph.D's trying to outlast anonymous teenage brats or their equivalent) and made it so that everyone had to use their real names, then we would not be here. Cheers, Paul _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
