QUOTE(EricBarbour @ Mon 8th August 2011, 1:10am)
QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Sun 7th August 2011, 6:02pm)
QUOTE(Newsfeed @ Sun 7th August 2011, 7:01pm)
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has launched a recruitment drive for women because its team of "26-year-old geeky, male" contributors lack the expertise to edit some of its pages.
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Let the little bastards hire their own whores. (No, wait, to be more precise, they
are the whores.)
Nevermind that. What's this blather about needing women, because "male geeks" lack expertise in the topics? (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/pinch.gif) Since when has editing WP been about the editors needing "expertise"? Having personal expertise in the subject only tempts you toward endless edit wars involving WP:V, and other problems with editors who don't have expertise and don't know the literature, and therefore don't believe or accept your cites. Or (even harder to defend) don't think your views are representative of a significant expert POV in the area, and so cause an unbalanced article emphasis, which causes NPOV/neutrality issues.
Arghh. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/tearinghairout.gif) Jimbo is capable of such bullshit. And his journalist audience is capable of such ignorance. Jimbo can stand there and say WP has launched a recruitment drive because "26-year-old geeky, male contributors lack the expertise to edit some of its pages," and NOBODY will challenge him on the point that WMF's partly line is that editorial "subject matter expertise" is supposed to be irrelevant on WP.