I see that quote all over. :) It's kind of funny to me because it often seems to be used in a way that encourages the idea that wikipedia working is mysterious and magical. As an academic it seems like a pretty plain and straightforward statement: Our theories don't seem to account for this, so there's more work to be done on our theories. Yay.
(I actually think there's a significant body of theory we can use to explain a lot of what's going on in Wikipedia, but it's distributed among different disciplines with different vocabularies and difficult to synthesize. :) ) On 8/30/07, Desilets, Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Check: WP:ACST for a list of articles with abstracts. There > > should be a few suitable. > > Sorry, what does WP:ACST? > > > "The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in > > reality, not in > > theory." > > BTW: I love that quote. Is it yours? I'll be using it a lot in the future! > > > ---- > Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada > Chair, WikiSym 2007 > > 2007 International Symposium on Wikis > Wikis at Work in the World: > Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century > > http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
