Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-15 Thread Brock Weller
-Brock On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2010, George Herbert

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

2010-10-15 Thread MuZemike
I get this feeling sometimes that some people are more interested in building a community on Wikipedia rather than helping to construct an encyclopedia. I tend to think that there is a notion which existed upon Wikipedia's founding: Always leave something undone. Whenever you write a page,

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

2010-10-15 Thread Fred Bauder
Focus on the task is the work involved. It is only with great difficulty that a group can develop the skill necessary to deal successfully with the dynamics inherent in group work and get something done. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Bion#Basic_assumptions and his book Experiences in