Exactly. That is why Wikipedia is an inappropriate place for this project. It lacks sufficient stability. I think Wikipedia should go on being what it is, an almost completely open place,and projects which need disciplined long term expertise should be organized separately. Wikipedia is a wonderful place to do many things, but not all.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Pavlo Shevelo<[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
