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                                                   August 7, 2013

Jimbo Wales of wikipedia did a
slashdot interview recently, and    [ref]
I watched a lot of the same old     [ref]
issues come up in the discussion.

  Wales as usual seemed completely        An old favorite: he 
  lack-luster, a polyanna ducking         feels he can handle
  any hard questions and insisting        China because a dozen
  that all is well.                       neo-Nazi cranks were     THE_TOY_WEB
                                          no problem.
       It strikes me that this is
       another case of having heard
       so many complaints that you
       just become numb to them,       You might think that a
       they barely even register.      repeated complaint would be
                                       a more powerful warning
                                       sign, but really the
  One issue:                           repetition often makes
                                       people immune to it: "we've
  Is there a problem with              all heard *that* before."
  wikipedia pages that are
  "owned"?                                            ARGUMENT_FROM_BOREDOM

            COMMONS_OWNED


    Wales has his shields up.
    A problem that afflicts many
    volunteer organizations...            Like Burning Man:

                                              SHIELDS_UP

                                                       Like Mozilla:
       You need to grow a thick
       skin when dealing with the                          LOGICAL_DESIGN
       public; and yet you still
       do need to deal with the           Some organizations
       public, somehow.                   find ways to listen:

                                                      FIRSTIMP




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