An alternative to democracy and to governance by the few is the current
interest in collective intelligence. For this forum it could be as simple as
providing a way for participants to tag each post according to, e.g.,
Prediction of a) Relevance, b) Novelty, c) Utility (on a thread), and d)
Demeanor. Anonymous stats posted by name of author each week and cumulative
for a 12 month sliding window. Likewise, profile posted by name of assessor
each week and cumulative for a 12 month window. Gives opportunity for
retrospective research as well.
Jack Ring
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Welty" <cawelty@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "[ontolog-forum]" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 8:33 AM
Subject: [ontolog-forum] Tighter control of ontolog forum? (01)
>
> 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?).
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> --
> 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
>
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