In Rancorous Times, Can Wikipedia Show Us How to All Get Along?

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Collective problem solving is a tough business. Just ask Congress. Or your partner. Now, extend your team to thousands of anonymous individuals and define …

Get a clue …

Here's a few —

http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showforum=62

Try to imagine a Congress where 3 or 4 members can get together in the dead of night and ban members who oppose their POV — that's the sort of “collaboration” they have in Wikipediot Land.

— Jonny Cache, 19 Oct 2010

It's just awful.

Wikipedism is the mess of practices that it is. Anyone who proposes those practices, as they are in reality and not in some wishful fantasy, as a model for solving social problems is either seriously lacking in acquaintance with the realities of what goes on in Wikipedia or just hasn't bothered to think it through. At any rate, that would be the charitable interpretation.

— Jonny Cache, 19 Oct 2010

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Something has to resist the tendency of our online conversations to the lowest common denominator, and the tendency to see each other as Hitler," he said. "I taught conflict management and a lot of this stuff is relevant and germane to conflict management."

Reagle, who will present on his work at the Berkman Center today, argues that the way Wikipedia users think about their project has its roots in the utopian visions of H.G. Wells .....

Wells plays a particularly interesting role in the eugenics movement. In 1904 he discussed a survey paper by Francis Galton, co-founder of eugenics. Galton had concerned himself mainly with "positive eugenics," proposing for instance that the marriage of college professors, supposedly the best of the race, be subsidized.