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Wikipedia is one of the most impressive collective platforms in the history of the world. It needs help! When possible, I enjoy engaging in the 'talk' debates and RFD process to insure that reason, logic, journalistic integrity and objectivity is expressed and editors are without bias. |
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==Intention as a Wikipedia Editor== |
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Revision as of 04:01, 2 October 2013
About Tumbleman
The name 'The Tumbleman' comes from the title of a story I wrote over 10 years ago and has stuck with me ever since. I am a wiki enthusiast, public speaker, media and technology professional, and developer of a collective editing platform for the purposes of online negotiation and problem solving. Of keen interest to me are online mediation platforms, collective problem solving platforms, and online dialectics for conflict resolution.
Point of View on Wikipedia
Wikipedia is one of the most impressive collective platforms in the history of the world. It needs help! When possible, I enjoy engaging in the 'talk' debates and RFD process to insure that reason, logic, journalistic integrity and objectivity is expressed and editors are without bias.
Intention as a Wikipedia Editor
I am here
to do a little field study for personal exploration into online resolution disputes collective editing, especially in consensus building platforms that rely on consensus rather than vote. I am fascinated, geek out by on the concept of 'wiki wars' where two ideologically opposed editors have to find consensus. I hope my stay here provides help to both wikipedia and My focus is primarily on the conflicts that arise when editors are faced with maintaining a neutral point of view with subject matters that have proven to be controversial historically. Although some suggest that objectivity may be a fleeting illusion, pure objectivity, or neutrality as wiki refers to it, is essential to distinguish in any collective editing platform. So my focus is more on the back end process that editors have to engage with and face.my own work into collective editing platforms.
Philosophical/Ideological POV
Case Study in Wiki editing and mediation: Rupert Sheldrake Biography page
Currently I have decided to focus on the biography of Rupert Sheldrake as a case study in online wiki mediation. I am agnostic as to Sheldrake's theories and admittedly have no qualifications one way or another to accept or refute them, I am intrigued by the reactions to them from both the scientific community as well as mainstream culture from an ideological perspective. I found the TALK section to often be a war between two sides of the issue regarding Sheldrake, both having various levels of bias. For me, this represents a wonderful opportunity to show the value of pure unbiased, neutral, or objective reviewing when addressing contentious biographies or issues. What makes this a perfect case study for me is the issues regarding Sheldrake are very well documented and sourced, and considering it's science, easy to distinguish inside of a NPOV.
To any editor of the Sheldrake page who visits here, rest assured I have no ideological agenda, one way or another, regarding his theories and am not seeking to promote or condone them, rather simply listing the debate and historical record around them so they are framed within a NPOV and of course written within WP Good Article Criteria. which the page is sorely lacking.
- This is an admirably clear and concise statement illustrating WP:NOT — most especially WP:NOTCASE (which specifically mentions case studies) and WP:NOTSTUPID. You are engaged in an experiment using a wikipedia talk page as the platform and wikipedia editors as the experimental subjects? If so, what you are doing is contemptible. It surely violates policy on what article talk pages are for and arguably violates ethical norms about human experimentation without informed consent. David in DC (talk) 02:31, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- I think D-in-DC has been a touch harsh, but in substance he's absolutely correct: if you want to be an editor here doing what all editors are supposed to do (improve WP) and along the way write something up describing your experience, that's fine. But when you start right out saying that your purpose here is to do some research on the rest of us, or on WP as an abstraction with the rest of us helping out as free labor, you're dead in the water from the very start. You may think that, because you're so sure you have some absolute neutrality on the article subject, you can be a genuine editor and carry out your research without tension between those goals; that's fundamentally impossible for many reasons, not the least of which is that we all have a point of view, and while most of us strive for complete neutrality few of us achieve it -- and even those who arrive at that state of perfection have no way of knowing they have done so. What's most worrisome is that you appear to be some sort of researcher, but don't understand WP well enough to have realized how unacceptable this is. EEng (talk) 03:25, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
- David in DC, EEng, Sorry this was a noob move. Thank you for bring this to my attention. After reading this I see what you mean. What I wrote above are my personal reasons and curiosities, I thought being transparent about them was in the spirits of WP. So I realize I need to clarify. I have no other 'agenda', no write up, field report, documentary, etc etc. I find the debates Rupert Sheldrake generates fascinating and am very interested in improving the NPOV on the page. That is all I am doing and will be doing. I personally 'geek out' on collective editing at large, and I think that confused things here. I will clarify this above and appreciate any advice you can give me in doing so. The Tumbleman (talk) 03:40, 2 October 2013 (UTC)