[Air-l] naturally occurring conflicts?

[Peter Timusk]

wikipedia is public scholarship with fewer or perhaps more guardians.  
It still requires skills to write a good entry but the dinosaurs of  
academia are not in the way meaning the snobs quotient is lower. It  
is also much cheaper than a course at school.

I suppose a page and the edits could be modelled as turns in a game  
theory model. but quantifying wikipedia content is going to be like  
Leibniz's algebra of life perhaps impossible. See Berlinski, David  
the Advent of the Algorithm (New York: Harcourt, 2000) and others on  
similar themes.

Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007).
just trying to stay linear.
Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.




On 27-Mar-07, at 10:39 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:


>
> Wikis introduce some great benefits for the creation of a less hostile
> social environment.  Flaming comments can be easily hidden by other
> community members before they cause a general flame war.  Editors  
> can be
> banned by the community in a transparent and open way.  Pages can be
> temporarily locked to allow for a cooling down period.
>