> I see a number of issues holding professionals back from contributing:
>
> 1) Some do not realize that it is possible to edit Wikipedia ( I hear
> this
> at work when people ask me how I became an editor ). Maybe we should
> advertise the fact that yes you too can edit Wikipedia.
This, I think,
I see a number of issues holding professionals back from contributing:
1) Some do not realize that it is possible to edit Wikipedia ( I hear this
at work when people ask me how I became an editor ). Maybe we should
advertise the fact that yes you too can edit Wikipedia.
2) Many are just not inte
Noein wrote:
> 1. I just had a short chat with [[Erik Orsenna]], a member of the
> [[Académie française]] who "loves to learn and pass along knowledge".
> He's also interested in the adventure of knowledge and in the democratic
> processes and appreciate being able to tap into the knowledge of the
David Goodman wrote:
> The traditional academic system is based upon status differences
> between pupils and teachers. One of the problems is the reception they
> get--a great many experts do not take it kindly when they are
> challenged by the ignorant, and get no respect for their
> qualification
This an interesting topic which ties in very well with others that I
have been discussing in this list. Noein presented part of the
problem. Dr. Goodman, with whom I had the pleasure of exchanging some
comments before, added some more very important information. He
mentions "ignorants" and "foo
On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> Exactly what David said.
> --
> ~Keegan
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
>
>
Aye, there is a group who will never really be able to fit in (I generally
think of them as the "elitist" side of the academics but that isn't really
Exactly what David said.
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The traditional academic system is based upon status differences
between pupils and teachers. One of the problems is the reception they
get--a great many experts do not take it kindly when they are
challenged by the ignorant, and get no respect for their
qualifications, or even negative comments ab
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On 28/05/2010 22:42, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
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>> 3. High level physicists also stay away from it. (for example most of
>> the theoretical information about [[quasars]] comes from the 1960's.
>> Current information on the net is frequently only ava
> With wikipedia, any expert could reach and teach millions of persons. In
> ten or twenty years, every literate person with internet access could
> use an interdisciplinary, edge-cutting database of knowledge for their
> diary reasoning.
> The knowledge and understanding of mankind could make gia
> 3. High level physicists also stay away from it. (for example most of
> the theoretical information about [[quasars]] comes from the 1960's.
> Current information on the net is frequently only available through
> pay-to-read sites.)
>
Well, I am a university professor in physics and a Wikipedia
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The premises:
1. I just had a short chat with [[Erik Orsenna]], a member of the
[[Académie française]] who "loves to learn and pass along knowledge".
He's also interested in the adventure of knowledge and in the democratic
processes and appreciate bein
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