People who want to write reviews of this sort generally want to propagandize either for or against something they have strong feelings about. The susceptibility of a project like this to campaigning and cabalism is so great, that i doubt a community run project could maintain objectivity. We have enough problem doing it at Wikipedia when the avowed purpose is to NOT offer opinion. I think maintaining NPOV --or anything like it--in this situation will be impossible.
I'd like to see someone try nevertheless. I certainly am not opposing the project. But it should not be us--we should keep far away from that. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Joshua Gay<[email protected]> wrote: > So, I think that such a project works well with the concept of NPOV. I think > you can break the site into two distinct parts. > > Part 1: You collect opinions of various sorts in various ways. > Part 2: You organize them in terms of their relative significance to each > other and summarize them in a disinterested voice. > > This would be a lot like Wikibooks and Wikipedia; people write stuff on > Wikibooks and then people cite those books on Wikipedia. > > -Josh > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Victor Vasiliev <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sage Ross wrote: >> > I think this is an excellent, long overdue idea and something >> > Wikimedia should be interested in. I was actually thinking of >> > proposing something like this at strategy.wikimedia.org (and may still >> > do so). >> > >> >> I don't think that creating such a project within Wikimedia would be a >> great idea. NPOV is one of the most important Wikimedia principles. >> >> --vvv >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > I am running the Arizona Rock'n'Roll marathon with Team in Training. Help me > reach my fundraising goals: > http://pages.teamintraining.org/ma/pfchangs10/joshuagay > _______________________________________________ > 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
