[WikiEN-l] Exit Interview -- Jon Awbrey

Mon Jun 19 13:46:38 UTC 2006

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post 6.

JL = John Lee
SB = Steve Bennett

SB: What is an accurate reporter?

JL: And do define "responsible journalist / scholar".  If you arrive at 
    Wikipedia with preconceptions of how things should be done from past 
    experience, and don't adjust these preconceptions, then you will of 
    course have a difficult time fitting in, especially when our editorial 
    norms are established for good reasons.

some people just seem driven to get the facts straight,
no matter what they might have believed beforehand.
that's my intuitive sense of what makes someone
an accurate reporter or a reponsible scholar.
i think that most AR's and RS's that come
to WP find that the 3 content policies
embody fantastically well what they
have already been born or trained
to do, since the basic ideas of
grounded and sourced research
were hardly invented locally,
but derived from standards
and practices, indeed,
from norms of conduct
that have goverened
the life of inquiry
for as long as it
has been alive.

so the "preconceptions" of this ethos are in pre-established harmony
with the principles set forth in the 3 content-governing regulations
of WP, namely, the policies of NOR, NPOV, and VER, and most folks
who have been living by these rules in the grounded research
portion of their intellectual lives feel themselves to be,
at least, at first, very much at home.

and what some of them, i'd never say all,
get disgruntled about is precisely the
extent to which the WP community as
a real body fails to live up to
what it espouses as its ideals.

if the perceptions of these disgruntled masses
are nevertheless saccurate and responsible,
then it's important information for the
long-term health and viability of WP.

jon awbrey

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