On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Ward Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 3, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Steven Walling wrote: > > I would strongly encourage you to join the movement lobbying for openness in > scholarly work. Otherwise, you're complaining about a problem that > Wikipedians do not have the power to fix, because academics tacitly support > a system in which knowledge is kept in the hands of the few who can pay for > it. > > > Wow. I never made this connection. I'd always thought of the issue as the > somewhat idealistic: > > scholar => citizen > > But you are absolutely right, the more immediate need is: > > scholar => wikipedian => citizen > > Of course citizens and wikipedians are sometimes hard to distinguish. But, > with the distinction made, the path is more believably important. >
Ward, as ever you have a talent for breaking complex ideas down into clear statements :) I think this is right, yes, is a position that we can get better at articulating as a community. This is self-serving, but I just gave a short talk about this topic last week: http://www.phoebeayers.info/phlog/?p=2377 cheers, Phoebe _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
