Elitism and democracy in content management
Interesting article about wikipedia.
I'd only thought this week about how I would frame the content delivery for the open bible project. Whether to let it work like wikipedia or select/employ differing views along the theological spectrum.
After reading this article I think working it like wikipedia would be a nightmare. You couldn't get more trolls if you opened the content up to fundamentalists and religious nutters and unlike wikipedia the content is more subjective.
The point of the project is to lay information bare, to give the textual and historical context, to give the various interpretations of it from liberal to fundamenthol, and leave you to make your own decisions as to their relevance and validity.
The likelihood is that any view that isn't mainstream will be drowned out in the sea of conservatism. And I don't think that would be good.
I'd only thought this week about how I would frame the content delivery for the open bible project. Whether to let it work like wikipedia or select/employ differing views along the theological spectrum.
After reading this article I think working it like wikipedia would be a nightmare. You couldn't get more trolls if you opened the content up to fundamentalists and religious nutters and unlike wikipedia the content is more subjective.
The point of the project is to lay information bare, to give the textual and historical context, to give the various interpretations of it from liberal to fundamenthol, and leave you to make your own decisions as to their relevance and validity.
The likelihood is that any view that isn't mainstream will be drowned out in the sea of conservatism. And I don't think that would be good.
posted by Mark Williams at 10:21 am
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