<CPOV> Community run or royal decree?

[Gregory Kohs]

Apparently, Thomas Koenig (T.Koenig at surrey.ac.uk) on behalf of Juliana
Brunello, wrote:

It's also curious, how uncritically the authors adopt Wikipedia lingo,
they speak of "consensus", when in fact they are dealing with hegemony in
sociological terms.

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It is also curious that both authors are themselves a part of the Wikimedia
mania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Asbruckman

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Atlanta/Bid_team#Andrea_Forte
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&limit=500&target=Andicat

I'm not saying there's anything "wrong" with being a long-time participant
in a subject, then conducting research about that subject.  However, I did a
lot of research in college and in grad school about the ethics of strategic
bombing, though I've never piloted a plane, nor dropped a bomb on an enemy,
nor ever been bombed.  I was decidedly undecided about the net effectiveness
of strategic bombing campaigns during World War Two.  War is such an
unquantifiable ethical conundrum, once waged.  I hope that my research was
better for the fact that I didn't carry the baggage of personal experience
with the phenomenon into my research.

Andrea Forte teaches at Drexel, about a 15-minute walk from my workplace.
Maybe we'll have lunch sometime and discuss the notion of Wikipedia's
"consensus" when it comes to snuffing out criticism of Wikipedia.

Greg
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