[p2p-research] On Alex Rollin stated intentions to expel me from the P2P Foundation board

[Michel Bauwens]

Patrick,

I'm presuming that the user base of wikipedia grew organically, and so did
the technical improvements and increased possibilities, through a dialectic
between the content producing and more techny-savvy developers.

This is of course quite different from imposing it on unwilling content
creators, without process or dialogue, or as in our case as well, the
decision to a wholesale adoption of wikipedia formatting, without regard for
the very different philosophy and histories of both projects.

Also as you are aware, the wikipedia stopped growing and is bleeding
contributors, while my general thesis has been that the main reason for this
is the victory of deletionism and the high political treshold for the
creation of new articles, which becomes a combat sport, there is the
possiblity that equally high technological tresholds could have played a
part in this crisis, the latter is of course just a hypothesis,

Michel

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:04 PM, Patrick Anderson <agnucius at gmail.com>wrote:

> M. Fioretti wrote:
> > Michel Bauwens wrote:
> >> that code actually makes content appear in different places at the
> >> same time... I have to make sure that the change is consistent over
> >> the various parts where Alex has seeded that content.
> >
> > If this really is the effect of Alex's changes, I don't recommend
> > it. It's a REAL NEAT idea, and I want to learn how it's done to apply
> > it to some content I want to edit and publish some day all by
> > myself. But I only plan to do it on something that would be "all by
> > myself". I have strong doubts that this can work scalably in real life
> > on text like this in this wiki.
>
> Maybe you are right.
>
> I wonder why the folks a Wikipedia use it so much then...
>
> I wonder why they bothered to make it a part of the wiki software.
>
> Maybe this is one of the unexplored problems of Wikipedia?
>
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