[Foundation-l] "antisocial production"

2009-06-27 Thread Eddie Tejeda
'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

Re: [Foundation-l] Why "Wikipedia" and not "the Wikipedia"?

2009-06-27 Thread Eddie Tejeda
I've always assumed it's because websites are locations... not things. You don't say "go to the google" or "go to the wikipedia" for the same reason you do not say "go to the new york" or "go to the london" -- Eddie A. Tejeda On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > Hello, > Co