That is supposed to be the foundational principle of Wikipedia. An article can be flagged if anyone thinks it violates the NPOV (neutral point of view). They have explanations and tutorials for prospective editors on the site. The Wikipedia article about it is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npov. Rick Dr. Rick Froman Psychology Department Box 3055 John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-7295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" - Ulysses Everett McGill
________________________________ From: David Hogberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/20/2007 9:10 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Interesting article about edits on Wikipedia NPOV = Neutral Point of View ??? (It's not one I've seen before.) Thanks. DKH >>> "Rick Froman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 08/20/07 10:02 AM >>> I have two responses to this: 1) I predict more people will now be using their home computers to make these edits. 2) Just because a person doesn't have a paid position with a corporation and doesn't post from a corporate computer doesn't mean they don't have a strong bias. Seeing corporate IPs would seem to privilege the opinion of the critics who may have their own agendas that have nothing to do with reality. I think the only hope for dealing with these issues is to enforce the NPOV format. For example, look at your college's description on Wikipedia. I have no problem with college officials putting up info there as long as it is accurate and NPOV. They probably have more access to useful information about the place than others as long as it remains in the realm of the factual, with a neutral point of view. Rick Dr. Rick Froman Psychology Department Box 3055 John Brown University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 (479) 524-7295 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart" - Ulysses Everett McGill ________________________________ From: Marc Carter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 8/20/2007 8:23 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Interesting article about edits on Wikipedia I've been reading about this for a while on Daily Kos; there have been a number of diaries showing corporate or political interference with the articles there. The ability to trace IP numbers is a great thing, if we're ever going to be able to trust the Wikis. I look forward to that. m ------ "There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." -- Margaret Wheatley -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 8:58 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Interesting article about edits on Wikipedia Hi Joan: Actually I read this as it was a front page article in the local San Diego Sunday newspaper and I was more encouraged than discouraged to the extent that now if people go in and fiddle with a posting the Wiki folks can at least track down the corporate source of the fiddling and can reverse the changes if appropriate. I'm a fan of wiki for the long run. For the short run I have to concede that there can be short time frames that are problematic. Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 15:30:54 -0500 (CDT) >From: "Joan Warmbold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [tips] Interesting article about edits on Wikipedia >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" ><[email protected]> > >http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/technology/19wikipedia.html?oref=logi >n > >Talk about more reason to be concerned about our students using >wikipedia as a source. Please do check this out. > >Joan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >--- >To make changes to your subscription go to: >http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang ><http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<> ><http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<> >=english > --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=> <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=> english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english> <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english> --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english> --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english <http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0<=english> --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
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