While I support the Wikipedia as a useful source of knowledge, along with the general principles of mass participation, it can at times be difficult. In the last few days I seem to have spent a disproportionate amount of time dealing with the deletion of obscenities on the Wales article, and preventing self-promotion in the Knowledge Management article. The latter is especially frustrating given the quality of the discussion and the lack of engagement of the wider community.
Sooner or later this will all get too hard and I will just give up, there are better uses of my time.
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Please do not give up.
I had not been to the Knowledge Management article for a long while, until I had to get something quickly for management. It has filled out a lot - but you are right, there are definite strands being emphasised over others. It is important that the true practitioners have a say in what appears here.
As for self promotion - I can attest to that. My other job is as a wine critic / consultant and I was surprised the other day to find that a couple of little known and hardly influential Australian wine writers (at least I can only assume it was them or their friends) had penned profiles of themselves for Wikipedia, whereas someone truly legendary such as Jancis Robinson MW did not even have a stub! (She may have one now, perhaps, as people such as myself respond...)
Posted by Paul Tudor | November 26, 2007 5:31 AM
Posted on November 26, 2007 05:31