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- Presumably. I didn't see need to elaborate moderate versions of each since it wouldn't have clarified much, if that's what you mean. VV 20:22, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- For the last distinction, I like communalism/bazaarism versus cathedralism, but I might've been influenced by a certain influential paper :)
Is there a place where the philosophy of wikipedia is discussed?
Thanx for this excellant framework for discussion. If wikipedia is an attempt to replicate the dryness of the world book for free and without plagerism (sp?), then wiki is the wrong mechanism. Perhaps the community can develop a culture that adds some order upon the chaotic freedom of wiki, but the choice of wiki should be acknowledged as commiting one to communityism, anti-status-quoism, enventualism and non-authorsism.
In my short time here, I've already seen rapid reversals as "vandalism" of contributions that did not trash the page, but just posted an extreme position guarded by a cogent defensible argument. Dismissing a position as "no one thinks that", is obviously untrue, someone just did think that, and if the status quo is correct, then it should assist them in crystalizing their arguments to be able to cogently respond to the position they view as "extreme".