A few notes:
To Blofeldt:
Of course Jimbo has nothing but contempt for Blo´s contribution.....but then Jimbo has nothing but contempt for
any of us suckers who works for free (for him, he hopes). I thought that had been quite obvious for years?
And the question at hand: I, for one, was completely dumbfounded by the ...the...., let us say "shortness of vision" that Gardner showed in her now infamous and much repeated statements about lack of women in wikipedia. (But, that maybe because I am not very interested in the articles about Jimmy Choo & Manolo Blahnik. Or even their shoes.)
Being female, and contributing in the Israel/Palestine-area....where Wikipedia has a reputation of matching Göring and Goebbels output of hate and propaganda (hi, Goodwin!)....is a
slightly more troublesome aspect, I would have thought. And the same problem is present in several other areas. And Jimbo
just doesn´t get it.
(And I´ll leave Gardner´s total over-sell of her own "achievements" on wikipedia: just a typical "climber" self-promotion that few would have reacted against if she had been a man (IMG:
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Ah, but the pair of Gardner and Jimbo: where did you ever see such a fine pair of intellectual .. pygmies?
There
is some good stuff on wp, (to quote Leonard Cohen: there are flowers on the garbage-heap), but apparently the current leadership does not see any need to weed out the garbage. And with their self-serving attitude, I do not expect much from them in the future.
The only solution, I think -sometime- in the future, someone else will develop the idea of online encyclopedia...hopefully taking the "good" stuff from wp.
That would leave wikipedia behind; sort of letting wikipedia be to online encyclopedia what altavista has become to online search engines: "the great new thing" one day.... totally forgotten 15 years after.
(Note to self: spend more time on licensing-issues.)
PS: I could say a lot about Blofeldt...but since this thread is about Jimbo (Thanks, Greg)..I´ll leave it for now. (IMG:
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