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> Current State of Wikipedia on the Porn Issue ?
Jon Awbrey
post Tue 15th February 2011, 5:42am
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Where would I find our best introduction or most succinct summary for interested outsiders on the current state of the Wiki-Porn issue?

There are active discussions of related matters on Facebook, and it always astounds me how often casual observers get taken in by Jimmy Sue's disinformation campaigns.

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post Tue 15th February 2011, 7:57pm
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Jon, I think that my own Examiner article about a particular aspect of the phenomenon is quite readable and easily understood.
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post Tue 15th February 2011, 10:34pm
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Tue 15th February 2011, 2:57pm) *

Jon, I think that my own Examiner article about a particular aspect of the phenomenon is quite readable and easily understood.


Thanks, Greg. I was under the impression that we had a WR Editorial on that whole brouhaha, but I couldn't find it when I looked. It appears that it may have been your article that I had in mind.

Here is the notice that I added to Alison's Facebook thread:

QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ 15 Feb 2011)

Reports of Jimbo's porn purge are greatly exaggerated. Gregory Kohs wrote an article for The Examiner that aptly summed up the wiki-wimper on Wikipedia that aftermathed the big bang in the Media:

Wikimedia Commons Cannot Control Teen Pornography

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Jon Awbrey   Current State of Wikipedia on the Porn Issue ?   Tue 15th February 2011, 5:42am
Somey   For a succinct and clear summary, one of us is goi...   Tue 15th February 2011, 7:44am
carbuncle   This link should serve as an example of the curren...   Tue 15th February 2011, 12:02pm
Jon Awbrey   My request was incited by one commentator's im...   Tue 15th February 2011, 1:16pm
Kelly Martin   As I've said elsewhere here, Jimbo's porn-...   Tue 15th February 2011, 1:29pm
Jon Awbrey   Silly me … again … For a moment there I almos...   Thu 17th February 2011, 2:34am
carbuncle   Silly me … again … For a moment there I almo...   Thu 17th February 2011, 3:22am
Jon Awbrey   Silly me … again … For a moment there I alm...   Thu 17th February 2011, 3:42am
Larry Sanger   This is actually a good question. I wish I had ti...   Sun 20th February 2011, 5:13am
Peter Damian   Wikipedia deserves to have an accurate reputation...   Sun 20th February 2011, 10:52am
EricBarbour   I am writing a short piece for a journal (a rather...   Sun 20th February 2011, 11:10pm
Jon Awbrey   Reminds us of the political system in recently de...   Sun 20th February 2011, 11:38pm
MZMcBride   [quote name='Larry Sanger' post='268853' date='Sun...   Tue 22nd February 2011, 5:08am
Peter Damian   * It is run by a hierarchy of about 500 adminis...   Thu 24th February 2011, 7:56am
Somey   Which of those bits is satire then? Satire is st...   Thu 24th February 2011, 9:32am
Peter Damian   Which of those bits is satire then? Satire is s...   Thu 24th February 2011, 10:10am
powercorrupts   Imagine a world in which absolutely everything wa...   Fri 25th February 2011, 10:23pm
Milton Roe   This is actually a good question. I wish I had t...   Sun 20th February 2011, 10:41pm
HRIP7   Here is another image for the collection; screensh...   Thu 24th February 2011, 2:09am
carbuncle   [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Giga_omora...   Thu 24th February 2011, 3:26am
HRIP7   [quote name='HRIP7' post='269305' date='Thu 24th ...   Thu 24th February 2011, 3:46am
tarantino   What's the current status with [url=http://c...   Thu 24th February 2011, 4:18am
Alison   What's the current status with [url=http://...   Thu 24th February 2011, 4:57am
Text   No thanks! I don't always troll wikis...   Thu 24th February 2011, 11:31am
Alison   No thanks! :hmmm: I don't always t...   Thu 24th February 2011, 12:00pm
Text   Also, since Midnight68 is still active on the vari...   Thu 24th February 2011, 11:56am
Text   It's a good snicker against the brain dead adm...   Thu 24th February 2011, 12:46pm
Text   Well, what of Lina Medina? The only wiki to have a...   Thu 24th February 2011, 12:59pm
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Text   Is he going to ask Seedfeeder, or is he going to...   Thu 24th February 2011, 6:50pm
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