> The training is typically an apprenticeship under the senior... To my regret training/apprenticeship does not fit to "everyone can...", "be bold!" set of wikimedia slogans/motto. As to me I would stand behind (vote for) training and apprenticeship.
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 12:23 AM, David Goodman<[email protected]> wrote: > The training is typically an apprenticeship under the senior > cataloging librarians. > > David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG > > > > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Samuel Klein<[email protected]> wrote: >> DGG, I appreciate your points. Would we be so motivated by this >> thread if it weren't a complex problem? >> >> The fact that all of this is quite new, and that there are so many >> unknowns and gray areas, actually makes me consider it more likely >> that a body of wikimedians, experienced with their own form of >> large-scale authority file coordination, are in a position to say >> something meaningful about how to achieve something similar for tens >> of millions of metadata records. >> >>> OL rather than Wikimedia has the advantage that more of the people >>> there understand the problems. >> >> In some areas that is certainly so. In others, Wikimedia communities >> have useful recent experience. I hope that those who understand these >> problems on both sides recognize the importance of sharing what they >> know openly -- and showing others how to understand them as well. We >> will not succeed as a global community if we say that this class of >> problems can only be solved by the limited group of people with an MLS >> and a few years of focused training. (how would you name the sort of >> training you mean here, btw?) >> >> SJ >> >> _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
