[Arisbe] prestige and anonymity

[Jon Awbrey]

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Michael J. DeLaurentis wrote:

> I note that today’s NYT reports an extension of open-sourcing
> to news gathering and reporting – “crowd-sourcing”, a group
> of volunteers who will report on current events, promoted
> and sponsored by Gannett, which will apparently retain some
> editing control.  The Times characterizes the trade-off as
> one of transparency, dialogue, and collaboration at the
> expense of “traditions of competition, expertise, and control”,
> and makes reference to Linux, Mozilla, and, of course, Wikipedia.

Michael,

Wikipedia, and more lately Citizendium, violate so many of the ideals
of open-sourcing and dispense with so many of the original advantages
of the wiki model of collaborative software that it has become all but
impossible to enumerate them all.  As far as the ideals of collaboration,
dialogue, and transparency go -- Wikipedia has become such a travesty that
it renders those who have seen its underbelly incapable of knowing whether
to laugh or cry first.

You can follow the narratives and discussion of a growing number of people
who have been through the mill at Wikipedia at The Wikipedia Review:

wp review: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398

Many Regards,

Jon Awbrey, aka Jonny Cache: http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showuser=398

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