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| Be Wiki - Means Whatever You Want It To
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There is a wiki myth that to be a part of a wiki, you must be:
- all giving and no taking
- oblivious to changes to work you have spent hours of volunteer time improving
- ready to give in to employees who have nothing better to do than rearrange volunteer efforts
- prepared to consign individualism to the dustbin
- unperturbed by the constant refrain of "be wiki or be gone"
The problem is that what is wiki is in the mouth of the beholder. Being wiki is anything a person wants it to be provided it can be couched in reasonable enough terms that make the other party look like a total ass for getting in the way of whatever the person querying that party's wiki-ness wants. Ultimately, asking someone to behave in a wiki way is laced with subjective notions and comes right back to the door of individualism, only this time it is cloaked by the wiki-words being used. How very convenient this can be when the person using these weasle wiki-words is aiming to totally deconstruct the writing of another and cover up their own tracks with "be wiki"
Whatever happened to "be considerate" and "show respect"?
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Posted by Titania on 2007-12-19 01:08:19 | Rating: | Views: 94
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