o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o Speaking of dynamics to avoid, one of the more irresistable forces of wikity at Wikipedia was the tendency of people who didn't produce many articles to keep thinking up things that were "fun" for them to do, and not so much "fun" for the Wikipeons who actually did the writing.
For example, yet another CiteBorg or RefBot system, that was all kinds of fun for developers to develop, but they never stop to ask whether the folks who know how to cite already, the kind of people we're supposed to care about now, really needed or liked such a thing. Jon Awbrey Michael Jennings wrote: > > "Giorgio F. Gilestro" wrote: > <snip> > > I find the biggest mistake of WP was to be absolutely ignorant of > > itself. Who really writes wikipedia? How? What is the credibility of > > scientific articles vs. political articles, really? CZ should think of > > a way to track everything down from the very> beginning. This is the only > > way to find and correct issues as soon as they arise, this is the only way > > to grow. > > > > I'll stop now. Already too much. Hope I have been useful. > > Last thing: what you want from experts it is not merely their > > theoretical knowledge but their ability to apply a 'method'. > > A scientific approach in researching and exposing contents. > > David Gerard, who is on vacation, found that the bulk of WP was > originated by occasional editors. While admins and wannabes had > lots of edits, they were not the main source of useful content. > This contradicts statements by Jimbo about who is contributing. > > You are calling for people who really understand to explain things. > > When Feynman ran out of brain to figure things, he explained 'em: > http://www.vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 > It was a little tricky and he didn't want to disgrace himself, but > he did want to stir able young minds to try figuring things out. o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o inquiry e-lab: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ citizendium development forums: http://smf.citizendium.org http://www.textop.org/wiki/index.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wikinfo: http://wikinfo.org/wiki.php?title=User:Jon_Awbrey wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398 o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o~~~~~~~~~o _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
