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Hi,<br>
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Thanks a lot for this link, but I wonder whether this is a good
example of the gender bias problem, or perhaps a good example of
several other problems Wikipedia deals with. One major problem,
which is evident here, is the obsessive drive to update, namely to
add articles about very recent or developing events. According to
the report, Jimmy Wales said that the article should be kept because
of the dress’ presumable long-term effect on fashion. But why making
guesses about the long-term effect? Just wait a little bit and see
whether this dress has an impact of any kind. We might all forget
about it, or we might not. In my opinion, this issue is more crucial
when writing about political events, where time perspective makes
more difference, but it is also quite crucial when talking about the
effect of a certain dress on future fashion.<br>
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Also, this affair reveals (once again) a weakness of the
user-generated content system. Accepting content from the public is
one thing, editing it is another. In my opinion, Wikipedia doesn't
have yet an efficient coherent method of editing the content it
receives. The idea is that the users are supposed to collaboratively
edit the material supplied by the users, but collaborative editing
proves to be a complicated and tricky task. When I was a contributor
to the Hebrew-language Wikipedia, I noticed that there was a de
facto editorial team made of veteran contributors. This system
started to collapse when the community of contributors grew larger
and the content became more diverse. The English-language Wikipedia
developed a huge rule book and a pseudo-judicial system which
heavily influenced the editorial line. At the end of the day, there
is still no answer to the question of whether a royal wedding dress
deserves an encyclopedic article.<br>
<br>
Dror K<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" class="moz-cite-prefix">בתאריך 14/07/12
09:46, ציטוט Geert Lovink:<br>
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cite="mid:37B6CEF7-393F-4D53-80E3-ABA34D1860FE@xs4all.nl"
type="cite"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/kate_middleton_s_wedding_gown_and_wikipedia_s_gender_gap_.html">http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/07/13/kate_middleton_s_wedding_gown_and_wikipedia_s_gender_gap_.html</a>
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