[governance] 'Wikipedia on Rant': Does ICT4All permit judgments on 'Speech Acts'?

[linda misek-falkoff]

Saturday Greetings:

At a slant and seemingly close though not entirely the same as the current
interesting discussion of "rudeness" online, the energetic exchanges in some
ways reminisce on discussion of *automated parsers* for  "rant" and other
'speech acts'  parsers that would capture and perhaps intervene under some
sort of quasi e-penal code, juridcially...

There are more than 2 questions involved. But 2 of them are: whether to
build, how to build.

One augurs that  the whether side is an issue core to *ICT2ALL* and
challenges us as to democracy (maybe). The second is one of ingenuity and
business case. People work on either or both in any text capture system: the
principle and the practice.

Pendulums swing, swing .... swing, historically.  The current description of
"rant" in Wikipedia is itself interesting for the sense of social
uncertainty, to wit (and forgive the initial shouting title preserved for
decorous emphasis via cut-and-paste low tech availment):

*--- 'fair use quote' (if one needs this copyright related device in the
Internet 'commons': ---*
**
Rant From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rant
 Jump to: navigation <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rant#column-one>,
search<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rant#searchInput>
 *See also: Rant (novel)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rant_%28novel%29>*
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Broom_icon.svg>
*This article may require
cleanup<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cleanup>to meet
Wikipedia's quality
standards <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style>.*
Please improve this
article<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rant&action=edit>if
you can.
*(October 2007)*   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Acap.svg>
*This article or section needs copy
editing<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_copy-edit>for
grammar, style, cohesion, tone or spelling.
*
You can assist by editing
it<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rant&action=edit>now. A
how-to
guide <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_copy-edit> is
available.   *This article needs additional
citations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources>for
verification <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability>.*
Please help improve this
article<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rant&action=edit>by
adding reliable
references <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources>.
Unsourced material may be
challenged<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fact>and removed.
*(October 2007)*

A rant is a purely emotion driven speech or piece of writing that has been
sparked by something so emotionally or intellectually jarring that one
ignores any notion of making a well researched and calm argument. A rant
directly attacks an idea, person or institution, often making few tangible
claims and broad, possibly personal, attacks upon the target
*--- end of fair use snippet ---*

Cordial-weekend regards, Cordial weekend-regards,
and there's much to disagree with (or not) above.
LDMF.

-- 
Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Ph.D., J.D.
N.B.: This post is my personal view, not necessarily representing an
organizational one.
For I.D. only here:
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