Re: [WikiEN-l] Why the Internet dooms universities

2010-10-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 6:24 AM, David Gerard wrote: > This reads like a radical anti-egalitarian manifesto by some young > Internet-based firebrand ... then I got to the end and my jaw dropped > at the author's job. Heh, I'm obviously closer to this space than you - I wasn't surprised at all. H

Re: [WikiEN-l] Building a community or building an encyclopedia?

2010-10-16 Thread David Goodman
More than maintaining the articles,and more than maintaining the group, the focus should be on maintain the continual and increasing development of new editors and new articles--not just as content creators, but as gnomes, and techies, and admins. The excitement of working here has not just been on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread David Gerard
On 13 October 2010 16:14, William Beutler wrote: > Conservapedia isn't even a reliable guide to what most U.S. conservatives > think of Wikipedia; despite the broad name, the site is actually run by Young > Earth creationists , > which is why

Re: [WikiEN-l] Building a community or building an encyclopedia?

2010-10-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 16/10/2010 15:23, Marc Riddell wrote: >> On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote: >> >> >> >>> That comes to my question regarding whether or not we are here to build >>> an online community or an online encyclopedia. Should we focus outwards >>> toward the reading/viewing audience, or should we

Re: [WikiEN-l] Building a community or building an encyclopedia?

2010-10-16 Thread Marc Riddell
> On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote: > > > >> That comes to my question regarding whether or not we are here to build >> an online community or an online encyclopedia. Should we focus outwards >> toward the reading/viewing audience, or should we focus inwards > towards the editors? on 10/16/

Re: [WikiEN-l] Building a community or building an encyclopedia?

2010-10-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote: >That comes to my question regarding whether or not we are here to build >an online community or an online encyclopedia. Should we focus outwards >toward the reading/viewing audience, or should we focus inwards towards the editors? It was settled early

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread Fred Bauder
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Guettarda wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert >> wrote: > That's not neutral. That's not representing reality. That's outright > "conservatives are so batshit we don't care about them" bias. > > And the argument doesn't deserve being simp

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread Fred Bauder
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Guettarda wrote: > > > I think that Wikipedia is big enough that we have room for all points > of view by drilling down far enough. We are not going to state in our > main article that the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy organised by the > US government, but we ha