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post Tue 22nd February 2011, 11:55pm
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This is old news in a way – a talk on Wikipedia given in 2009 by an academic who specialises in online studies. However, I couldn't find any previous discussion of it here. It's a very clueful analysis.

Video of the talk, related webpage, plus some slides from a talk by Jimbo she refers to.

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The greatest threat to Wikipedia is its community. ... The community is very off-putting to occasional contributors. ... It's scary, it's aggressive, it's often ignorant.


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QUOTE(HRIP7 @ Tue 22nd February 2011, 5:55pm) *

This is old news in a way – a talk on Wikipedia given in 2009 by an academic who specialises in online studies. However, I couldn't find any previous discussion of it here. It's a very clueful analysis.

Video of the talk, related webpage, plus some slides from a talk by Jimbo she refers to.

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The greatest threat to Wikipedia is its community. ... The community is very off-putting to occasional contributors. ... It's scary, it's aggressive, it's often ignorant.


(Posted by someone on the Gendergap list.)

Well, two out of three aint bad. rolleyes.gif
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