Cyc-Borg Idiology : Cybernetic Opacity, Fear Of Uncertainty : Assistance Is Futile Options

[Jonny Cache]

In my struggles to comprehend what we have called the Wikipedia Ideology, I realize that, whatever it is, it is something bigger and older and likely to be a lot longer lasting than Wikipedia itself, indeed, we can trace its devolution from DMOZ and Nupedia, and it has already undergone a mutant mitosis in the form of Citizendium.

So what is this stuff? -- this condition of mind that seeks a hive?

To bee or not to bee -- that is the question.

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[Moulton]

My random theory du jour is that anonymous players are exploiting the opportunity to work out various and sundry unresolved issues in their personal lives by transferring instances of those unresolved issues to other editors chosen for their likelihood to respond with innovative solutions. If there is any merit to that theory, it would explain the ubiquity of WikiDrama in the encounters among the embattled and embroiled editors.

[Jonny Cache]

My random theory du jour is that anonymous players are exploiting the opportunity to work out various and sundry unresolved issues in their personal lives by transferring instances of those unresolved issues to other editors chosen for their likelihood to respond with innovative solutions. If there is any merit to that theory, it would explain the ubiquity of WikiDrama in the encounters among the embattled and embroiled editors.

One of the themes that occurred to most participants in the many abortive Expert Rebellion Movements (ERMs) that were all the rage in Wikipedia last year was that there was a large population of let us say down-trodden students who found in Wikipedia a place where they could derive fast temporary relief from their academic frustrations by lobbing Wikispitballs to their ♥'s content at Wikiprofessor surrogates, a place where they could gang up and lord it over their non-plussed transference objects with complete Wikimpunity.

The question that few of these experts got as far as asking — not being experts in those fields for which its asking would have been dictated next — is this:

Why does Wikipedia Management pander to the demographic that seeks this form of relief at the expense of the demographic that has the greater portion of the sum of human knowedge and is trying to contribute it to the encyclopedia project?

Ay, there's the n00b …

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