Marc Riddell wrote: >> on 6/27/09 6:35 PM, David Moran at fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> While not exactly science, having gone to more than one Wikipedia >>> picnic to break bread with my fellow contributors ... the >>> conclusions seem pretty accurate to me. >>> >>> DM >> >> And, until that changes, the Project will grow only in size, but not >> in depth. >> >> Marc Riddell
I wonder how much of that is due to cultural differences, taking the Pokemon vs Medieval Philosophy difference as one example? Editors have multifarious interests, and IMO, the worst of them tend to discount outside interests, particularly when it comes to "popular culture", as irrelevant. I'd suggest that NPOV suggests that within a historical perspective, it is not for us now to judge such issues, after all, it's not as if we are short of disk space for our articles. I'm reminded of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Cultures but these days, we have many more than two cultures represented in en:wiki, so diversity should not only be expected, but encouraged; this, to me, means that editors should occasionally step outside their comfort zone and see what is going on elsewhere. Perhaps, since I watchlist about 1600 articles of various types, I get an overview denied to, or rejected by, others, but then also, perhaps I have too much time on my hands. Ho hum. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
