> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Eddie Tejeda<ed...@visudo.com> wrote: >> '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.... > > Generally, my experiences are close to that conclusion. > > The problem is that even it is a close approximation of Wikipedian > community, Wikipedian community is the best which humanity has. > Scientific communities all over the world are much worse: openness is > low, flexibility is low, vanity is high, scientific sincerity is > low... -- besides the characteristics of Wikipedians, which are, also, > characteristics of scientists. Not to talk about artists, > businesspersons, bankers, politicians... >
Yes, that perspective is correct. We do fairly well, comparatively. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
