http://jonathanstray.com/what-do-you-edit-on-wikipedia Information, Culture, and Belief Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:34:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://jonathanstray.com/what-do-you-edit-on-wikipedia/comment-page-1#comment-184 Equivocality » Blog Archive » Writing about Curiosity Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:06:40 +0000 http://jonathanstray.com/?p=161#comment-184 [...] I did too. Curiosity fascinates me. The wikipedia entry noted that it is “the fuel that drives science”, but I felt that was unfair. As if science is the only thing we want to know! I had to add that curiosity is the thing that makes us want to know anything at all; perhaps it’s an external form of creativity. Wikipedia is, of course, the best plaything for the curious since the invention of writing, and I have often been curious about it. When you edit Wikipedia, what do you write about? Did you sit in the front row or the back row as a child? Did you grow up on science fiction, were you an activist in college? Did no one understand you, or have you always been perfectly normal? … Who was that one person in your life who was once patient enough to give you their best answer, over and over, to your plaintive “why?” (more) [...] [...] I did too. Curiosity fascinates me. The wikipedia entry noted that it is “the fuel that drives science”, but I felt that was unfair. As if science is the only thing we want to know! I had to add that curiosity is the thing that makes us want to know anything at all; perhaps it’s an external form of creativity. Wikipedia is, of course, the best plaything for the curious since the invention of writing, and I have often been curious about it. When you edit Wikipedia, what do you write about? Did you sit in the front row or the back row as a child? Did you grow up on science fiction, were you an activist in college? Did no one understand you, or have you always been perfectly normal? … Who was that one person in your life who was once patient enough to give you their best answer, over and over, to your plaintive “why?” (more) [...]

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