On 3 February 2011 11:26, Mark <delir...@hackish.org> wrote: > What about Wikipedia's culture actually led to an encyclopedia being > written, with a lot of good information, and a fairly neutral tone for > the most part?
Nerds are obsessive about things being right and not wrong. This leads to most things about Wikipedia. > That's something Nupedia didn't succeed in, and on the > second point is something even most academic-press books don't succeed > in--- the median overview book on a subject sneaks in quite a bit of > opinion and original research, and sometimes even digs at academic > opponents if the editors let them get away with it, which is why you > can't really read an academic book without *also* reading a few > journals' reviews of it. NPOV is IMO W _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
