Marc Riddell wrote: > on 4/16/09 3:44 PM, David Gerard at [email protected] wrote: >> Academics learning how to massively collaborate effectively. > > We have been collaborating very effectively for a very long time. The > results are the substance of this encyclopedia.
It varies by field, but my experience (as an academic) isn't really along these lines. I've rarely seen successful collaborations between more than 2-3 professors, certainly not "massive". I mean, you don't usually see an entire Computer Science department working together; often, the people in the same sub-area don't even work together, depending on how closely their visions and personalities match. Of course, many academics "collaborate" with large labs of grad students, but that's a more hierarchical form of collaboration. Of course you're right that the overall body of knowledge has come from a lot of people, so is collaboration of a sort. But it tends to more often be the form of big-chunk give and take, rather than pervasive massive collaboration. Someone will write a journal article; someone else will respond to it or build on it; and so on. But you won't often have 20 people working together to come up with a consensus journal article. -Mark _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
