Durova on Youtube: Obey us, lowly peons, Finally. The 15 minutes she's committed mayhem to achieve Options

The one, the only. Durova online, at the SMX conference.

44, going on 60. She's our lady woman.

Youtube Link



Interview with Lise Broer "Durova", Administrator, Wikipedia at SMX Social Media New York 2007, October 17, 2007

She's NOT 44. She's Grandma.

This post has been edited by Disillusioned Lackey: Mon 5th November 2007, 7:21am

No need to make fun of her looks. But I was rather taken aback by her answer to a general question about the Wikipedia community: that certain elements of the community that "don't serve a visible function of helping to build an encyclopedia periodically get stripped away". All she has to say about the community is that it "strips away" those it considers harmful elements? Why not talk about collaborative work, consensus, that kind of thing? I am aghast at the mentality that would lead one to think that the most important thing to say about the Wikipedia community is that people are often excluded from it. I don't suppose there will be many Wikiconverts coming from this interview.

I was rather taken aback by her answer to a general question about the Wikipedia community: that certain elements of the community that "don't serve a visible function of helping to build an encyclopedia periodically get stripped away". All she has to say about the community is that it "strips away" those it considers harmful elements? Why not talk about collaborative work, consensus, that kind of thing? I am aghast at the mentality that would lead one to think that the most important thing to say about the Wikipedia community is that people are often excluded from it. I don't suppose there will be many Wikiconverts coming from this interview.

No doubt. That was just odd. I can't imagine that's what the interviewer was asking when inquiring about how the WP community supports the encyclopedia. They say any publicity is good publicity, but that comment was incredibly negative, and isn't an appropriate introduction to Wikipedia.