----- Original Message ----- From: "David Goodman" <[email protected]> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:07 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Fwd: Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 5:26 AM, Peter Damian > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >>We were talking >> about very aggressive editors who know absolutely nothing of the subject, >> and drive away specialist editors. >> > > I see an equal proportion of very aggressive editors among the expert > as well as the non-expert editors. Expertise does not necessarily > mean a devotion to expressing all significant views and presenting > them fairly. I have been involved a little with some articles in > Wikipedia written by fully-credentialed experts --in one case with an > international reputation and distinguished academic awards-- devoted > to expressing their own peculiarly one-sided view of the subject. And > there was a group of articles with several experts of established high > reputation each taking the position that the other ones were > hopelessly wrong. The irony is that this does not happen in Wikipedia in my experience, with philosophy. I know all of the small group and they get on very well and support each other. The problem is the aggressively belligerent non-trained editors who drive the specialists away. I think the best way to convince you of this is to get testimonials. There is one here http://ocham.blogspot.com/2010/07/ohlocracy.html I could get plenty more. >>I am not qualified to judge articles on philosophy on my own understanding of the material. I must ask whether you are so very sure that academic consensus will endorse your views on the articles mentioned that you would be able to write a replacement article, and ask for an RfC on it, and convince outsiders by reference to multiple understandable authoritative sources? >> On the quality of the articles, even Wikipedia's own grading system shows a problem. http://toolserver.org/~enwp10/bin/list2.fcgi?run=yes&projecta=Philosophy&namespace=0&pagename=&quality=&importance=&score=&limit=100&offset=1&sorta=Importance&sortb=Quality Any professional philosopher would support my view. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
