> >>> '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 >
OK, an error, it is not policy to be disagreeable, policy is to be civil, and on the mailing lists and irc too, but I'll stand by the observation that Wikipedia is a dull place, "Just the facts, Ma'am", and intended to be. Fred _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
