Chris, (01)
I appreciate your approbation, however I for one would prefer to do my
own spam filtering. (02)
Too many good ideas are so far out there that they seem to be nonsense.
(Like the idea that the earth is not flat, like a pancake. I do believe
the Flat Earth society is considering closing its forum as well.) (03)
Just my opinion. (04)
Jess (05)
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[mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Welty
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 9:34 AM
To: [ontolog-forum]
Subject: [ontolog-forum] Tighter control of ontolog forum? (06)
As many of you have no doubt heard, Wikipedia, aggressive bastion of
open collaboration, is strongly considering finally giving in and
closing its editorial process somewhat. The new model being proposed
and supported by a majority of wikipedians, including its founder, is
that anyone will be able to edit, but all edits (perhaps constrained to
"all edits on higher traffic pages") will need to be approved by a
"trusted" editor, of which there are many (thousands?). (07)
Pure openness was key to bootstrapping wikipedia's content, but now that
it is among the most frequented and trusted web sites, it has become a
common target of spam, pranks, and general maliciousness. (08)
I know there are many in ontolog who prefer a purely open forum, but I
think the failure of SUO and the continuing nonsense in this forum -
which make it the butt of many jokes and keeps a lot of otherwise
serious ontology people away (I include myself in this category, you may
argue with the "otherwise serious" bit)
- are evidence that the open model doesn't work here. (09)
This forum is not taken seriously because it is too open. I suggest
adopting a model like the one Wikipedia is considering, in which we
establish a sort of active editorial board - a group of trusted
moderators rather than just one, any of whom can approve a post and thus
the flow of information will not be significantly slowed, power and
control will not be in the hands of one person, and the quality will
increase. (010)
--
Dr. Christopher A. Welty IBM Watson Research Center
+1.914.784.7055 19 Skyline Dr.
cawelty@xxxxxxxxx Hawthorne, NY 10532
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/w/welty (011)
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