QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Fri 25th February 2011, 4:02pm)
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My reasons for following media coverage on this issue may be tangential to the main arc of interest. The above article falls within the penumbra of a Wikimedia Foundation focus on upping the percentage of women contributing to Wikipedia. Increasing the levels of participation in avowedly democratic enterprises is a good thing. But Wikipedia is avowed quite expressly not to be an experiment in democracy, nor is it even remotely democratic in point of fact. Indeed, trying to correct the defects of Wikipedia Culture by recruiting more participants of any class or kind is like trying to correct the defects of a Ponzi scheme by pumping more dollars into it. And that is not a good thing.
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Jon Awbrey •
25 Feb 2011 (7:58 PM)