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• Subject: Re: Invitation to metadata dictionary wiki - meaningfuel.org
• From: Vladimir Gapeyev <vgapeyev@s...>
• Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:50:38 -0500 (EST)
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This surgical theater example totally misses the subject, sorry.

The Wikipedia (or an edited surgical manual from a "respected publisher", 
for that matter) is about
    "for those interested, here is what medicine knows about appendoctomy,
     as determined by a consensus of people that recognize each other's
     expertise in the subject matter;"

rather than
    "this HOWTO is all what you need to know about cutting out your
     appendix --- get to business right now, don't have a doubt in what we
     say!"

The "well educated and credential" surgeon that you trust is probably a 
member of the "self-selected group of people interested enough in surgical 
tools to participate in a discussion of surgical tools" and looks up the 
communal knowledge when his own is a little lacking.

--vg


On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Klaus Backert wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 28.01.2006 um 14:34 schrieb Elliotte Harold:
>
>> One of the revelations of Wikipedia is that crowds are pretty effective at 
>> self-selecting and self-policing. A random crowd would not be effective at 
>> picking surgical tools. A self-selected group of people interested enough 
>> in surgical tools to participate in a discussion of surgical tools likely 
>> would be; and in fact probably would do better than any one individual 
>> would, no matter well educated and credentialed.
>
> Let's assume: I have to go to a hospital to get a surgical treatment. Then 
> I'm inside the operational theater. On the one side there is a "well educated 
> and credential" surgeon. On the other side there ist a "self-selected group 
> of people interested enough in surgical tools to participate in a discussion 
> of surgical tools". Whom will I count on, when it comes to the selection of 
> the proper surgical tool for treating ME?
>
> Additional information: I hope that I will come home safe and sound.
>
> There is this wonderful word: When the rubber hits the ground ... ;-) %-))
>
> Klaus
>
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