2010/10/29 Fred Bauder <[email protected]> > The movie is gravely flawed by coverage of poorly founded opinions of > people who either were never familiar with how Wikipedia works or are > long out of touch such as Ed Poore and Larry Sanger. There is even > considerable coverage of the "bumblebee could never fly" variety. Here is > a list of some of the people who appeared:
The appearance of Andrew Keen is the most disappointing part, because he babbles about the exact same things he babbled about in the otherwise good documentary "The Truth According To Wikipedia" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMSinyx_Ab0 ). I sincerely hope that it's not the last documentary about Wikipedia, but that it would be the last featuring Keen. It's disappointing because, as legitimate as his ideas are, he really doesn't have anything more to say. It's as bogus as all those studies that discover that Microsoft software is better than Free Software and that always turn out to have been funded by Microsoft. Then the Free Software community laughs at it... and it goes on for years. But instead of laughing at these studies, the Free Software community should ignore them and not publish them at Slashdot. And the same goes for Keen - we could keep dismissing him, but we should just ignore him instead, at least until he comes up with some genuinely new criticism. In fact, there are substantial problems in Wikipedia and if we keep listening to Keen and say that we already solved the problems he talks about, we may disregard the other, real problems. -- אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי · Amir Elisha Aharoni http://aharoni.wordpress.com "We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace." - T. Moore _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
