Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-30 Thread Abd ul-Rahman Lomax
At 07:59 AM 6/27/2010, Fred Bauder wrote:
Yes, articles from diverse points of view would be good.

One Size Fits All. (If It Doesn't Fit You, You get an F.)

Free Public Education for All. (Implicit: One Curriculum, Centrally 
Decided. How?)

Free Encyclopedia: (One Brief Article Per Subject.)

I just came from the AERO Conference in Albany, NY. Educational 
Philanthropy is destroying indigenous cultures around the world, 
imposing, all with good intentions, the economic and social paradigms 
that are dominant in the donor cultures. John Taylor Gatto, who 
coined Dumbing Down, was there as one of the keynote speakers. And then,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LbZ3XcfK4

Not only it is an option to have many schools, it is a necessity.

Not only is it an option to have many teachers and many courses, it 
is a necessity.

Not only is it an option to have many points of view, without 
diversity, there is no depth.

Wikipedia, unless it develops and uses genuine consensus process, 
will follow this old deadening error.

AERO is Alternative Education Resource Organization. They are now 
extensively connected with IDEA, Institute for Democratic Education 
in America; and, in the end, the people who are involved have many 
competing educational theories and techniques, often at each other's 
throats, so to speak, where they disagree, but are uniting behind a 
broad consensus, which, as you might suspect if you see the video I 
linked, is likely to punch through the noise. They know how to do it, 
they have the energy, and they have the resources.

Wikiversity allows diversity. And, just in case, NetKnowledge is an 
alternative, and I just came across conex.org.

The AERO and IDEA people were not aware of Wikiversity. Now they are.

Watch this space.


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-28 Thread Alec Conroy
Wikipedia is synonymous with NPOV and changing that would be confusing.

But-- surely there should be somewhere in the Wikimedia family for
people to collaborate on works, even if they aren't working to make
NPOV, notable encyclopedia articles.   Editorials and opinions and
reviews and fancruft and who knows what else.

Why not let people work on a Scientific POV project?  Or a Judaism-POV
project?  Or a project without any consistent POV across articles?  a
'high-quality-articles only' project?  A 'child-friendly' project?  Or
even a project where editors could experiment with content types and
writing styles we haven't yet considered.

None of these could ever be a substitute for the NPOV  Wikipedia.
But who knows how many amazing projects could grow if we had a simple
process for building new ones.



On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Shmuel Weidberg ezra...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-28 Thread Charles Matthews
Alec Conroy wrote:
 Wikipedia is synonymous with NPOV and changing that would be confusing.

 But-- surely there should be somewhere in the Wikimedia family for
 people to collaborate on works, even if they aren't working to make
 NPOV, notable encyclopedia articles.   Editorials and opinions and
 reviews and fancruft and who knows what else.

 Why not let people work on a Scientific POV project?  Or a Judaism-POV
 project?  Or a project without any consistent POV across articles?  a
 'high-quality-articles only' project?  A 'child-friendly' project?  Or
 even a project where editors could experiment with content types and
 writing styles we haven't yet considered.

 None of these could ever be a substitute for the NPOV  Wikipedia.
 But who knows how many amazing projects could grow if we had a simple
 process for building new ones.

   
There is a process for starting new WMF sites (i.e. new sister 
projects). It is apparently dormant, presumably because the best ideas 
for new reference sites are already implemented. There is a point in 
there: not all sister projects are directly reference-oriented since 
Wikinews is for journalism. In fact what you are suggesting looks 
related to expanding the scope of Wikinews (to such things as are 
normally found in newspapers and magazines). There are good reasons to 
doubt the potential support, though, for people being able to write 
just what they want. When it comes down to defining the actual scope 
and policies of a colloborative site, it is harder than it may look to 
transform nice idea into an operational community.

Charles


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
Yes, articles from diverse points of view would be good.

Fred Bauder

 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
It pretty simple to manage. You just need to link to all articles on a
particular subject from the top of the page. Articles would need to be
limited to notable points of view.

Fred Bauder

 You're proposing to overturn the rules against POV forking? Seems like
 a bad idea to me - the encyclopedia would shatter into an unnavigable
 mess if every interest group were to split off their own versions of
 articles.



 On 6/27/10, Shmuel Weidberg ezra...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Ian Woollard
No, it's a disastrous idea; it's inherently antithetic to NPOV. What
you'd be doing is creating articles that are deliberately non NPOV.

Content FORKS are never, ever desirable.

On 27/06/2010, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
 Yes, articles from diverse points of view would be good.

 Fred Bauder

 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a disastrous
idea?

Fred Bauder

 No, it's a disastrous idea; it's inherently antithetic to NPOV. What
 you'd be doing is creating articles that are deliberately non NPOV.

 Content FORKS are never, ever desirable.

 On 27/06/2010, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
 Yes, articles from diverse points of view would be good.

 Fred Bauder

 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Magnus Manske
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
 And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a disastrous
 idea?

It is, by far, the lesser of two evils.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Andrew Gray
On 27 June 2010 06:47, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote:
 You're proposing to overturn the rules against POV forking? Seems like
 a bad idea to me - the encyclopedia would shatter into an unnavigable
 mess if every interest group were to split off their own versions of
 articles.

I think there's a valid issue here, but there's a balance to be struck between:

* X as it occurs in one specific context
* X from the perspective of one viewpoint

So it would be legitimate to have an article on [[Economic
philosophies of the Something Party]] and one on [[Economic
philosophies of the Other Party]]; it would not be legitimate to have
an article on [[Economics (Somethingian)]] as a counter to [[Economics
(Otherian)]].

Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 June 2010 17:34, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:

 And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a disastrous
 idea?


In practice, it's resulted in a site that seems to work.

We've done the experiment, as you know. The POV fork site is your own
site, Wikinfo. While it's ticking along fine, its notice in the world
is negligible.

A single article site seems to fulfill people's needs.


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 June 2010 17:43, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
 I think there's a valid issue here, but there's a balance to be struck 
 between:

 * X as it occurs in one specific context
 * X from the perspective of one viewpoint

 So it would be legitimate to have an article on [[Economic
 philosophies of the Something Party]] and one on [[Economic
 philosophies of the Other Party]]; it would not be legitimate to have
 an article on [[Economics (Somethingian)]] as a counter to [[Economics
 (Otherian)]].

 Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...

So should the various articles linked to from here be deleted?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Andrew Gray
On 27 June 2010 17:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...

 So should the various articles linked to from here be deleted?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought

Economics was a bad example, perhaps :-)

That said, this illustrates the point - we are quite capable of having
an article on [[neoclassical economics]] and one on [[marxist
economics]], but what we don't have is two co-equal articles on
[[economics]], one from a Marxist perspective and one from a
neoclassical perspective.

As I say, fuzzy line, especially with more philosophical concepts - it
shows up the problems with simply saying we don't like forks.

The original article being discussed here was, I believe, the
biography of a particular historic-religious figure, and this is where
we can hit problems, but also where a X views on... article can work
out well if handled correctly.

To take a prominent example, it's reasonable to have [[Jesus in
Christianity]] and [[Jesus in Islam]], but they need to both be
treated as subsets of the article on [[Jesus]], in the same way that
[[Historicity of Jesus]] or [[Cultural depictions of Jesus]] are, and
*not* as seperate forms of the main article. The trick is in getting
that balance right.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 27 June 2010 17:56, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
 To take a prominent example, it's reasonable to have [[Jesus in
 Christianity]] and [[Jesus in Islam]], but they need to both be
 treated as subsets of the article on [[Jesus]], in the same way that
 [[Historicity of Jesus]] or [[Cultural depictions of Jesus]] are, and
 *not* as seperate forms of the main article. The trick is in getting
 that balance right.

Well said. Forks should exist to deal with articles that would be too
long otherwise and for no other reason. You should be able to combine
all the forks together (replacing the summary in the main article with
the full article) and end up with a (very long) coherent article.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Ian Woollard
On 27/06/2010, Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
 On 27 June 2010 17:47, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:
 Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...

 So should the various articles linked to from here be deleted?

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schools_of_economic_thought

 Economics was a bad example, perhaps :-)

 That said, this illustrates the point - we are quite capable of having
 an article on [[neoclassical economics]] and one on [[marxist
 economics]], but what we don't have is two co-equal articles on
 [[economics]], one from a Marxist perspective and one from a
 neoclassical perspective.

They're subarticles. The Wikipedia allows subarticles, and that's not
considered a fork. And even that can be abused.

 As I say, fuzzy line, especially with more philosophical concepts - it
 shows up the problems with simply saying we don't like forks.

We don't like forks. That isn't the problem. The problem is the people
that DO like forks.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Andrew Gray
On 27 June 2010 18:10, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote:

 Well said. Forks should exist to deal with articles that would be too
 long otherwise and for no other reason. You should be able to combine
 all the forks together (replacing the summary in the main article with
 the full article) and end up with a (very long) coherent article.

And here's a secondary problem :-)

I think it's key we don't call these forks - they're not.

Forks are articles on fundamentally the same thing, but written
differently - they may be forked for philosophical reasons, for
administrative reasons, or even for stylistic ones,* but they're still
two articles on Topic X which disagree on something.

They're bad.

The alternative is daughter articles - at least, that's the term
I've always encountered, and I'm curious if we call them anything else
- which exist to go into more detail than the main article, or to
bring out aspects that wouldn't be appropriate there, or to pull
material together from a number of disparate articles to avoid
duplication (for example, three people involved in a single notable
event whose lives otherwise don't cross).

These are fine.

We might say, rather than both being on Topic X, that they're on Topic
X.i, X.ii, X.iii, etc.  They *can* be written badly, and effectively
amount to forks, but that's a specific content issue; we should avoid
thinking of them as a kind of fork by default.

The problem arises when the scope of a sub-article is such that it's
almost forkish by nature - [[A's views on Topic X]], [[B's views on
Topic X]], etc. It's a bit hazier here - but as long as we keep the
emphasis on writing about the views, rather than presenting them as
statements of sourced fact, we're probably on the right side of the
line.

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* I can't remember if I laughed or cried when I saw that one.

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
 Yes, articles from diverse points of view would be good.

 Fred Bauder

An open question, I think; the failure of your own Wikinfo* would seem
to suggest it's not particularly valuable.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AWikinfo

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread William Pietri
On 06/27/2010 09:34 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
 [Ian Woolard wrote:]
 No, it's a disastrous idea; it's inherently antithetic to NPOV. What
 you'd be doing is creating articles that are deliberately non NPOV.

 And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a disastrous
 idea?


Just the opposite. Precisely because it isn't war, it's discussion 
leading to compromise.

As David points out, what we have basically works. Ten years ago, it was 
an open question, but now it's pretty much proved: people of all stripes 
can come together and create a consensus understanding about anything, 
including the world's most contentious topics. It's not always easy, and 
it's not argument-free, but it's not war. There are no anonymous dead, 
no razed villages, no smoking rubble where children once played.

An important tool of warmongers is, in effect, the POV fork. Propaganda 
leading up to war often constructs a version of reality that is 
irreconcilable with the view of the proposed enemy. If understandings 
are different enough, there is no room for compromise -- no attempt at 
compromise -- which means matters must be settled by force.  Diplomats, 
on the other hand, labor to find common ground, the shared 
understandings from which agreements can be made.

As long as we have humans, we'll have different viewpoints, and 
arguments about which is right. But as long as those arguments are the 
pursuit of common understanding, then that's not war, but the stuff of 
peace.

William


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
 the stuff of
 peace.

 William

Who dictates the peace terms?

Fred


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Fred Bauder
 On 27 June 2010 17:34, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:

 And war to control the content of the NPOV article is not a
 disastrous
 idea?


 In practice, it's resulted in a site that seems to work.

 We've done the experiment, as you know. The POV fork site is your own
 site, Wikinfo. While it's ticking along fine, its notice in the world
 is negligible.

 A single article site seems to fulfill people's needs.


 - d.


It's never too late to do better. The experiment is Wikipedia doing it.

Fred Bauder



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 June 2010 20:32, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:

 It's never too late to do better. The experiment is Wikipedia doing it.


I remain entirely unconvinced. POV forks reduces strife amongst the
*writers*, but doesn't do much for the *readers*.

Many people have tried competing with Wikipedia with a site that makes
things nicer for the writers. So far the track record is dismal and
the sites are all but moribund. Even the writers prefer to go where
the readers are, which is here.

It is understandable that experimenters want to go where the readers
are too, but considering the problems for writers turned out to be way
less important in practice than actually being read ... you'd need to
come up with rules that really did succeed in skimming off Wikipedia's
actual *contributors* to demonstrate it was at all a good idea.


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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread Charles Matthews
Andrew Gray wrote:
 On 27 June 2010 06:47, Elias Friedman elipo...@gmail.com wrote:
   
 You're proposing to overturn the rules against POV forking? Seems like
 a bad idea to me - the encyclopedia would shatter into an unnavigable
 mess if every interest group were to split off their own versions of
 articles.
 

 I think there's a valid issue here, but there's a balance to be struck 
 between:

 * X as it occurs in one specific context
 * X from the perspective of one viewpoint

 So it would be legitimate to have an article on [[Economic
 philosophies of the Something Party]] and one on [[Economic
 philosophies of the Other Party]]; it would not be legitimate to have
 an article on [[Economics (Somethingian)]] as a counter to [[Economics
 (Otherian)]].

 Where you draw the line, though, is quite tricky...

   
It's not so tricky to say that (a) NPOV is never negotiable in an 
article, and (b) a POV content fork is not a distinction between topics, 
but a way of spreading out content according to editorial view. We have 
never accepted that POV content forks have a place in WP. (They have a 
very large place elsewhere, which is a good reason to stick to our guns 
on this.)

Charles



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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread FT2
From a reader perspective, someone who looks up a named topic is entitled
to a balanced view on that named topic. Being told they can't read a
balanced view on the topic, but they can read a choice of 3 articles of a
non-balanced type don't really do the job.

If the reader can (or should be able to) make up their own mind then so
should we, and if they can't then we have failed to educate them about
topic, we've just said here are 2 biased views and we can't agree how
much weight each carries.

Either of these messages - even the one that says we can't decide - is
better conveyed in one article.

FT2
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread FT2
don't? doesn't.
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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-27 Thread David Gerard
On 27 June 2010 23:55, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote:

 From a reader perspective, someone who looks up a named topic is entitled
 to a balanced view on that named topic. Being told they can't read a
 balanced view on the topic, but they can read a choice of 3 articles of a
 non-balanced type don't really do the job.


Indeed. If they wanted that, there's already Google.


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[WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-26 Thread Shmuel Weidberg
I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
discussed it on talk pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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Re: [WikiEN-l] Parallel Articles on topics

2010-06-26 Thread Elias Friedman
You're proposing to overturn the rules against POV forking? Seems like
a bad idea to me - the encyclopedia would shatter into an unnavigable
mess if every interest group were to split off their own versions of
articles.



On 6/27/10, Shmuel Weidberg ezra...@gmail.com wrote:
 I have come across topics that are approached differently by different
 groups and thought that parallel articles might be appropriate in
 those cases. I'd like a wider view on the topic. Here is where I've
 discussed it on talk pages:

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Judaism#Jewish_Versions_of_articles
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:David#King_David_in_Judaism

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