On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Noein <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 20/06/2010 01:49, Milos Rancic wrote: > > * At another faculty we have a teaching assistant among Wikimedians. > > After two projects, we've concluded cooperation because students > > didn't quite understand work on Wikipedia and started with > > confrontation. > > That information is key. Why people from the teaching establishment > don't understand Wikipedia? Why don't they see, for example, that it's > one of the best ideas about protecting and sharing information? Why do > they judge it so mediocre when they can participate to make it > brilliant? Why people in the education doesn't see or understand this? > What are their arguments and their inner barriers? Do they have good > counter arguments, is it a prejudice, an incompatibility of personality, > or ignorance? > > Where are the explanations? What IS Wikipedia? What are the structures > and consequences of this meme, this slogan: "imagine a world where each > human being has access to the entire human knowledge"? Where are they > theorized, wordized, schematized? > Do the members of this mailing list even agree? Do we know what wp is? > > Where are the wikimedian efforts converging to? What kind of world are > they creating? Have we got tendency towards democracy, consensus, > participation, sharing, unanimity, respect, liberty, freedom of > expression and of choice, listening, dialoguing, or have we not? > > > Why people, values, projects and actions of betterment (to our eyes) of > the world are not listened to, trusted, voted, seconded, motioned, > consensually applied, critically applauded, desired, rewarded and > understood?
If you're never read it, you'd probably enjoy this article from the Journal of American History penned by the late, great Dr. Roy Rosenzweig from June 2006: <http://chnm.gmu.edu/essays-on-history-new-media/essays/?essayid=42> -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
