Re: [ox-en] Re: What's wrong with powerful maintainers?

• From: "Michel Bauwens" <michelsub2004 gmail.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:50:34 +0700

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your experience is not unique, since the victory of the deletionist editors,
the growth has been flat, and editing has becoming a political activity
requiring mobilization, requiring a significant amount of energy

cfr http://delicious.com/mbauwens/Wikipedia for recent coverage

Michel

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:22 PM, alejo duque <
alejo.duque europeangraduateschool.net> wrote:

On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Michel Bauwens wrote:

The question is: why the difference, why is this so?

i got an article deleted sometime ago, it was for a LiveCD project targeted
for latinamerican immigrants in Europe, the wikipedia editor said that since
it hadn't "sold" more than 1000 copies it was still not relevant to have an
entry in wikipedia... Someone suggested i should get a wikipedia lawyer (no
joke, there are).. i got bored with all that greyish nearsightness (not sure
if one can say it like that, my bad english)

if you compare backgrounds and the generational gap between FLOSS
developers and wikipedia editors you will get a clear reason for why such
difference...

the issue made me stop editng pages, i have no time to try to use my
wikipedia account anymore for defending all my editing, as i though the
project it was like a place where everyone could open a page, an article and
begin editing, no limit to number of pages created and the possibility to
fork and create new from old ones...but not deleting pages from others on
weak uninformed "consensus".

seems i haven't got through it yet!

:)

/a

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  • Re: What's wrong with powerful maintainers? (was: [ox-en] Material peer production (Part 2: Free Cooperation))
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