[WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article

Fri Apr 18 14:40:19 UTC 2003

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 at 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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