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As if to address Stans concerns one of cofounders of Wikipedia announced of
the plan to launch a competitive product Citizendium (URL below):
Though still open to submissions from anyone, the power to authorise
articles will be given to editors who can prove their expertise, as well as
a group of volunteer constables, charged with keeping the peace between
warring interests.
Asked in an e-mail exchange how such disagreements should be resolved, Mr
Wales replied: With strong support for individual rights, and respect for
reason. His e-mail went on: It is the fundamental responsibility of every
individual to- think-, to- judge-, to-decide-. We must never abdicate that
responsibility, not to the collective, not to Britannica, not to Wikipedia,
not to anyone.
Note naïve who can prove their expertise and volunteer constables.
Volunteer indeed.
It is true that current Wikipedia at least in some controversial topics
became Kinbotopedia. At the same time these modern age cyber controvercies
make me pause on better in for better or worse, it is the commentator who
has the last word. Sometimes for better indeed as careful reader of PF will
attest. And I doubt that volunteer constables will know the difference. It
is worth mentioning that VN lended some of his ideas to Kinbote. May be even
worth an effort to compare them with what was given to Shade.
- George
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e62ce8a4-5d3e-11db-9d15-0000779e2340.html
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the plan to launch a competitive product Citizendium (URL below):
Though still open to submissions from anyone, the power to authorise
articles will be given to editors who can prove their expertise, as well as
a group of volunteer constables, charged with keeping the peace between
warring interests.
Asked in an e-mail exchange how such disagreements should be resolved, Mr
Wales replied: With strong support for individual rights, and respect for
reason. His e-mail went on: It is the fundamental responsibility of every
individual to- think-, to- judge-, to-decide-. We must never abdicate that
responsibility, not to the collective, not to Britannica, not to Wikipedia,
not to anyone.
Note naïve who can prove their expertise and volunteer constables.
Volunteer indeed.
It is true that current Wikipedia at least in some controversial topics
became Kinbotopedia. At the same time these modern age cyber controvercies
make me pause on better in for better or worse, it is the commentator who
has the last word. Sometimes for better indeed as careful reader of PF will
attest. And I doubt that volunteer constables will know the difference. It
is worth mentioning that VN lended some of his ideas to Kinbote. May be even
worth an effort to compare them with what was given to Shade.
- George
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/e62ce8a4-5d3e-11db-9d15-0000779e2340.html
Search <http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html> the Nabokv-L
archive at UCSB
Contact <mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu> the Editors
All private editorial communications, without exception, are read by both
co-editors.
Visit Zembla <http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm>
View Nabokv-L Policies <http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm>
Search the archive: http://listserv.ucsb.edu/archives/nabokv-l.html
Contact the Editors: mailto:nabokv-l@utk.edu,nabokv-l@holycross.edu
Visit Zembla: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/nabokov/zembla.htm
View Nabokv-L policies: http://web.utk.edu/~sblackwe/EDNote.htm