>> 'Forget altruism. Misanthropy and egotism are the fuel of online social >> production. That's the conclusion suggested by a new study of the >> character >> traits of the contributors to Wikipedia. A team of Israeli research >> psychologists gave personality tests to 69 Wikipedians and 70 >> non-Wikipedians. They discovered that, as New Scientist puts >> it<http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16349-psychologist-finds-wikipedians >> -grumpy-and-closedminded.html>, >> Wikipedians are generally "grumpy," "disagreeable," and "closed to new >> ideas."' >> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2009/06/the_sour_wikipe.php >> >> I wonder how the mailing list will react.... >> on 6/27/09 6:07 PM, Fred Bauder at fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote:
> > Always knew this, Wikipedia is generally an outlet for folks who have low > interpersonal social skills, or at least insufficient outlets for self > expression. As to "Disagreeable and closed to new ideas", that is policy, > Wikipedia is a compendium of established knowledge, not a place for new > ideas, which we call original research. > C'mon, Fred; it is "policy" to be "disagreeable"? And as for "closed to new ideas"; that may be appropriate to the body of the encyclopedia itself, but it applies very much in the various Mailing Lists & Talk Pages. Take a good look. Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
