This Is Your Education On Wikipedia, Working Drafts Toward A Paper ??? Options

[Jon Awbrey]

I'm going to use this thread to collect previous posts on educational philosophy and educational practice that seem worth preserving, and perhaps even rewriting for wider distribution.

Jon Awbrey

[Jon Awbrey]

Facebook Notes

Social media do of course have great potential — that's been the dream of many since the mid 1980s, just since I started paying attention — but the conditions under which that potential can be realized are simply not present in Wikipedia. Far from it.

— Jonny Cache • 26 Jan 2011

As far as content goes, I am primarily concerned with the areas of my own research, not how well Wikipedia covers Pokemon or Porn Stars, and in the areas of my interest Wikipedia is not significantly, certainly not cost-effectively better than it was in 2005 when I first got fooled into trying to correct some of the more egregious errors that Google was beginning regurgitate at the top of its results.

But I am concerned with factors that I consider even more important than mere content alone, namely, with the ethical and intellectual habits that developing characters acquire on account of their participation in a given community or culture. And when it comes to that, Wikipedia Culture is a serious threat to most of the things that I have cared about since coming of age in this one.

— Jonny Cache • 26 Jan 2011