» You Don't Have To Be A Mentalist To Edit Wikipedia, But It Helps
Straw man alert!
“The public perception of Wikipedia editors and moderators is that they are an altruistic group of bright sparks who volunteer their time to expand the world’s knowledge, but…”
The public perception of Wikipedia editors is surely NO SUCH THING. Inasmuch as the public think of them at all I’d guess they would see the bad ones as single-issue lunatics and the good ones as vaguely harmless pedants.
In fact this is one of the awesome things about Wikipedia - the fact that it’s a project which has yoked a lot of individual bads (egocentricity and pedantry) into a gigantic collective good. Wikipedia is unique in that it’s a community that actually works better the more nit-pickety and humourless its members are! God bless it.
