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On Sep 18, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Stefan Merten wrote:
Yesterday alejo duque wrote:if you compare backgrounds and the generational gap between FLOSS developers and wikipedia editors you will get a clear reason for why such difference...Can you give more details in what you are thinking about?
certainly i might be speaking through the layers of prejudices i live in, but i think that many powerful or "super editors" in wikipedia are people who spent their life doing on traditional working enviroments and conventions then sort of retired and for a lucky change found wikipedia as a new job where clearly they could be experts on some areas, but unfirtunately many try their competence in some where they just can't... i tend to believe that i was arguing with the ex- librarian of my high school in colombia, trying to explain that a liveCD was not a music CD, that i was never going to sell thousands of copies as they wanted so to allow a wikipedia entry..., that the project i was presenting was far from commercial and that it needed a community to be built and that it was already functional (just boot from your CD!), one of them claimed that it was a minor linux distro. hes reading of the word minor i dont want to loose time commenting... but why is it that a minor linux distro can't have a page there? ..such comment just aligns with the other editor thinking of it in line of being a CD of famous artist...the project was and is targeted for immigrants, how many they think can really get to the point of downloading and using a liveCD? thats already a big task and the steps for doing such thing include youtube screencasts for changing bios settings... so far a couple of hundred clicked on the download link in softpedia, phps when the counter gets to the thousand i can get back to the wikipedia court room..haha, yes, 519 is not many but is really not about the number is more about expressing and idea and see if it gets to grow almost with no big effort, just with love and few drops of water on the hot days (wiki page here, screencast there, etc..)
they read the entry as "self" promotion and they where right, what they didnt understood was that is it was a about the self promotion of a community of immigrants.
so, "young" generations of computer coders in the floss arena are already immersed in forks and branches, wikipedia will have to be revised in terms of the software, that will allow such things.. git based wiki. that will from the "firmware" get rid of all non sensical dicussions on every an each page.. there might still be a task for censorship but thats another story.
i refrain on using this post to send links about the particular project i use as example, cause this thread is not about it.
im sure also im not so clear on depicting the maind frame of the wikipedia editor vrs the floss developer but i leave up there at least my vague impression.
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