User:David Shankbone/NYCWikiconference

Panel A-3: Neutrality and Activism

We now have four people, which sounds good. I'd encourage people to fill in more detail, or maybe link to an abstract or blog entry or something, so we have a better idea of what we are saying and are prepared to substantively engage each other. Also, should we have a moderator, someone to keep folks on time? (I think we should each do no more than 10 minutes, then with time for discussion/questions.) --Reagle (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

• David Shankbone, What is neutrality? The difficulty with conceptions of truth and neutrality.
  • David, I moved you to the start since it sounds you might kind of frame the issue. Also, if you haven't seen it, you might be interested in my argument below --Reagle (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
• Ed Poor, The Limits of Neutrality. (Two sentences from Ed on his gist.)
• Joseph Reagle, The Merits of Neutrality. NPOV is one of the most important principles of Wikipedia collaboration in that it permits those of disparate opinions to work together.
• Ragesoss, Passion and Neutrality. How Wikipedia editing can be both activism for a cause you believe in and mesh with the community norms and institutional goals of the project; NPOV as a rhetorical strategy for achieving social change ; WMF institutional activism and what it means for the community
  • Sage, I moved to you the end since it sounds you might be proposing a way to integrate activism and the NPOV norm. --Reagle (talk) 13:45, 22 June 2009 (UTC)