Tony Sidaway wrote:
This is simply a matter of employees falsely claiming
that Wikipedia must
change in order to solve their own personal communication and web
navigation problems.
I'm pretty sure nobody has said that exactly. It is, however, the
case that many employees will choose not to put their jobs at risk,
even if WP would be helpful in their day-to-day work activities.
Maybe that's OK; maybe we don't care if those people participate
or not.
However, I think it would be really helpful to the goal of
encyclopedia creation if it were possible for, say, the USGS to
assign one of their technical writers to the task of improving WP's
info on mountain ranges, or seafloor vents, or volcano prediction,
plus adding pictures that are not currently available on the net.
That kind of win can't happen if we don't come up with some way
to better accommodate organizational policies on sexual harassment.
Stan