Mark
>at one point I was responsible for a lot of the content on that
>Foucault page. The problem is that as people can edit it at will,
>the article keeps drifting into inaccuracies.
I had wondered whether different interpretations and people providing
inaccurate info might indeed be problems when it comes to this kind
of collective writing! It is as you point out a problem even if one
started out with something that was accurate - especially with
somebody as controversial and popular as Foucault! As a result it
would be hard to guarantee the accuracy of the info on a project such
as the Wikipedia - unless it was very cut and dried and very
specialised. The site says that it keeps an eye on edits but unless
this involves different specialists keeping an eye on different
things it would be hard for them to really check -except for the more
obvious stuff-
>Also, a lot of people disagree with me - had a big dispute with
>people there about Foucault's relationship to Althusser - it turned
>out ultimately that they were arguing on the basis of Foucault for
>Beginners. Anyway, I'll get round to tidying it up at some point
>again. Of course, if anyone else here wants to get involved adding
>or removing stuff, then that's what wikipedia is all about!
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Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
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>at one point I was responsible for a lot of the content on that
>Foucault page. The problem is that as people can edit it at will,
>the article keeps drifting into inaccuracies.
I had wondered whether different interpretations and people providing
inaccurate info might indeed be problems when it comes to this kind
of collective writing! It is as you point out a problem even if one
started out with something that was accurate - especially with
somebody as controversial and popular as Foucault! As a result it
would be hard to guarantee the accuracy of the info on a project such
as the Wikipedia - unless it was very cut and dried and very
specialised. The site says that it keeps an eye on edits but unless
this involves different specialists keeping an eye on different
things it would be hard for them to really check -except for the more
obvious stuff-
>Also, a lot of people disagree with me - had a big dispute with
>people there about Foucault's relationship to Althusser - it turned
>out ultimately that they were arguing on the basis of Foucault for
>Beginners. Anyway, I'll get round to tidying it up at some point
>again. Of course, if anyone else here wants to get involved adding
>or removing stuff, then that's what wikipedia is all about!
--
Clare
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Clare O'Farrell
email: panoptique@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
website: http://www.foucault.qut.edu.au
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