"Jeremy"
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With the greatest respect Dr.
Müller-Straten you are
mistaken. Wiki's (of which there are
very large
numbers) are simply web servers that
allow anyone to
edit their pages.
Dear Jeremy,
I repeat the respect, but we are not so far
from each other. Of course "anyone" in principle, but I was
speaking about "scientists, teachers etc." as not anyone
from the road EFFECTIVELY CAN BE a contributor...In most cases there are
a first input by an "educated" person and later corrections
and additions by others.
Your reference to Wiki encyclopedia's I'm
guessing
refers mainly to http://www.wikipedia.org,
although
there are also other wiki based
encyclopedias.
Yes.
Wikipedia is a non profit organisation,
Which says nothing about their need of
money...
and has no editorial board. All pages are
editable by anyone, and
all contributions can be from anyone. They *do*
have
people known as 'administrators' who have
permission
to revert changes to pages, for example to
remove
inappropriate additions or mediate in
disputes.
As I am informed, no single word is set
online before checking by the administrators. These people I called
editorial board. Why not? I have nothing against this solution.
Wikipedia is no web anarchy at all, it is a sophisticated
tool.
*Anyone* can become a Wikipedia administrator,
you
just have to have been 'an active
Wikipedia
contributor for a while' and be a 'generally a
known
and trusted member of the community'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators
This does not say anything about the (or
some of the) administrators being paid.
Administrators are all volunteers, they are not
paid,
and they most certainly cannot be described as
an
'editorial board'. The money to run Wikipedia
mostly
goes towards bandwidth, server hosting and
hardware.
As many NPO have paid board members, I
simply can not imagine why such an institution should be an exemption.
As all this hardware, hosting etc. is not that expensive, why do they
have to collect millions of
Euros "to survive"?
I expect that also quite some money goes into IT-specialists,
translation and editing. Why not?
Despite all this, or more likely because of
it,
Wikipedia was recently tested by the science
journal
Nature, and found to be about as accurate
as
Encyclopedia Britannica
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm
In part, it depends on the pages. Some of
the Wiki pages really lack deeper information. But anyway, many of them
are well written und edited.
Christian
Jeremy.
>
> "Eugene Dillenburg"
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> schrieb:
> Before this discussion strays too far
off-topic, I
> think it would be
> good to
> go back to the source. The original
post cited page
> 122 of the January
> 2006
> issue of Curator (49 / 1). I believe
this is the
> passage:
>
> "The channel [MTV] recignizes that it
is in dialogue
> with its viewers;
> they
> form the brand together. The
Brooklyn Museum of Art
> realized the same
> thing. Along with the usual
anonymnous labels
> written by curators, its
> 'American Voices' installation also offers
Community
> Voices labels
> written
> by ordinary museumgoers. The
National Museum of the
> American Indian in
> Washington, DC went a step further.
Staff not only
> worked with
> 'community
> curators,' but also identified the author
of each
> label, effectively
> undermining the idea of a single,
authoritative
> version of truth and
> promoting a more inclusive, provisional
one."
>
> (Jason Petrulis, reivew of the books
"Branded
> Nation: The Marketing of
> Megachurch, College Inc. and
Museumworld" by James
> B. Twitchell, and
> "No
> Logo" by Naomi Klein)
>
> So, just to be clear, from the very
beginning we
> have been discussing
> museum-visitor collaborations. The
initial post may
> not have stated
> this
> explicitly, but since it did give the
citation,
> there was probably
> little
> need for it to do so.
>
> PS -- I thought the whole point of wikis
was that
> they *didn't* have
> large
> editorial boards? I could be
mistaken.
>
> Eugene Dillenburg
> Exhibit Developer
> The Science Museum of
Minnesota
>
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