[Chapter-delegates] Ward Cunningham on identity: to deserve my respect because I know something about somebody

[Joly MacFie]

This was underlaid by a strong sense of netiquette - codified in the
ongoing Wikipedia principles

1) Assume good faith
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith

2) Don't bite the newbies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_bite_the_newbies

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On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Marcin Cieslak <saper at saper.info> wrote:
> Ward Cunningham, the inventor of a wiki, said something
> on trust and identity in his recent Dr. Dobb's interview:
>
> http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/240000393
>
>  Cunningham: I think that the thing I did right there
>  was respect the people who would come that I didn't
>  even know, who had no right to deserve my respect
>  because I know nothing about them. But I would say,
>  "Come on in and I'll trust you to contribute in
>  good faith and to make your words a gift to this
>  community." And we did. It was magical. I tell you I
>  felt so good everyday. (...)
>
>  (...) What we really did was say was the command and
>  control hierarchical communications that we had to
>  use in organizations wasn't necessary anymore. In
>  fact, it was an impediment. It wasn't that it
>  couldn't work. It was that it was unnecessary. And
>  I think the reason why the wiki is popular is
>  because it's the first medium that disregarded that
>  hierarchy. And it allowed people to contribute
>  based on their own understanding of what was
>  valuable. And that has grown up with an understanding
>  in organizational theory that you have to work that
>  way.
>
>
> //Marcin
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