The conference Critical Point of View met Wikipedistik and Wikipedians. That this is not entirely free of conflict, see the blog entries from the Wikipedia former South spirit and Wikipedistik Peter Haber . Southgeist commented on his usual open and unverklausulierte way from the conference, Peter Haber refers in his blog post mainly on South Geist comments. Peter Haber interpreted the attitude of mind as a representative of South the Wikipedians, as follows:
"We know what we need to know and the rest is not interested in us. So let it alone, "further writes Haber:
." Perhaps this is indeed an understandable reflex of research subjects to do research with respect to, in the case however, this means that the actually very necessary dialogue remains the Wikipedistik with Wikipedians remains difficult . 'I myself have watched the conference from a distance. Last but not least thanks to the live blogging from South mind I could make me a good idea about the content and quality of the conference contributions. I understand both as Wikipedians, as well as Wikipedistik and can both Positions understand that. In fact, I see a fundamental tension between the two groups. Anthropologists are not unfounded, for example, at the North American Indians, the most unpopular guest at all. I have myself witnessed how anthropologists believe the Indians understand better than they themselves, and discussions with the Indians consider to be unnecessary, as there are Indians discussions with anthropologists consider to be unnecessary.
I think it needs both anthropologists or Wikipedistik, the cultures from a theoretical point of view and analyze from the outside or Indian Wikipedians who contribute their insider knowledge. A mutual defense posture is human and the Function of the two groups understood her. In my perception there are many Wikipedistik but means done by making contributions to make itself heard in a number of Wikipedians, I am thinking, for example, Christian Bauer bridge as well as the aforementioned Peter Haber.
The two blog posts but also reveal further Grunddiskrepanzen between the Commons culture and academic culture:
- academics maintain diplomatic criticism to put into words and are not used to public criticism. For Wikipedians are hard and open discussions on the agenda.
- Many academics are linguistically trapped in their world and are struggling to meet the contents of the target audience to present. Wikipedians prepare content for a mass audience and should therefore be hard to be understood.
- According Wolf Wagner covers many academics their contents even deliberately difficult to understand in rates, to distance themselves from the crowd. Wikipedians are moving on the boundary between academia and the mass transfer and are used to.
- Many academics attach the teaching of little value. Well, many Wikipedians as well ;-)
