Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread Skyring
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote: Reality has a liberal bias doesn't mean that liberals are right. Rather, it means that any attempt to represent reality will, in the eyes of American conservatives, amount to displaying a liberal bias. That should only be

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread George Herbert
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:11 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2010, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: I

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread Fred Bauder
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com 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

Re: [WikiEN-l] Alleged Liberal Bias

2010-10-16 Thread Fred Bauder
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Guettarda guetta...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:26 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: 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

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

2010-10-16 Thread Charles Matthews
On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote: snip 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

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

2010-10-16 Thread Marc Riddell
On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote: snip 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 10/16/10

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: snip 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

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