Loving the rant that is all truth by Danny Sullivan: http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853
What Sullivan doesn't say, but Wikipedia folks themselves have admitted, is that the system is squewed to push out entries about women--the example Sullivan Rants about, about internet click fraud pioneer Jessie Stricchiola and her deleted Wikipeda entry, is straight on.
What Sullivan doesn't say, but Wikipedia folks themselves have admitted, is that the system is squewed to push out entries about women--the example Sullivan Rants about, about internet click fraud pioneer Jessie Stricchiola and her deleted Wikipeda entry, is straight on.
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I am not sure about the deletion context, but I just don't see Sullivan's point. There is a lot of anger there, and entitlement, which I don't feel towards Wikipedia. The issue is process and accessibility. Ey could have just listed the difficulties in getting something done, and asked who to talk to about it.
I have no reason to doubt that Wikipedia is biased; unlike similar orgs/movements, they are relatively transparent about their "humanness". Also unlike others, I believe it is a surmountable set of issues, because of the nature of how it works.
Ranting isn't going to get the kind of support that generates positive process change. It is just going to make it easy to ignore Sullivan as someone who didn't take the time to help the ecosystem.