Sure, yeah, none of what you're saying is new or controversial.
I agree, and I guess just about everyone does.
--Jimbo
Rotem Dan wrote:
--- Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> wrote:
rather than a more broad discussion which might
encompass Eastern
views and so on.
This is only one of the different points I brought up,
I will try to sum them all:
1. Giving the western philosophical views of
"Knowledge" should be paired by eastern ones (In the
same amount of detail) -- I don't expect this to be
done soon, as I've said on previous posts, the
majority of writers origin from western cultures, but
this should change.
2. Creating a wiki that tries to form a consensus
regarding the matter itself (by addressing the matter
directly, not the different views and historical
timeline) is an impossible task.
3. Encyclopedic articles should not try define the
matter (e.g. "What is knowledge?") unless it is
trivial (Like in Wikipedia's Knowledge article, as
opposed to Brittanica)
4. Encyclopedic article should cite and base the ideas
and concepts presented, preferably by reference to
known experts in the field (In this case
World-recognized philosophers)
5. One person's thought process may lead into
completely different "philosophical" discussion. So
stating that the "following discussion" presented is
the only "correct" one is a biased treatment of the
subject.
6. In this specific case (as an example), I argued
that
the latter 80% of the article doesn't add a
significant insight on the matter, in proportion to
the amount of text given. (Quantity vs. Quality)
7. I propose another definition of what Wikipedia is
NOT: Wikipedia is NOT a collaborative project of
writing scientific papers or text-books, or any
debatable cognitive material for that matter.
I hope this explains it
Rotem
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