Wikipedia in decline. Obviously this is men's fault.

Arn13 · 2013-10-25T03:28:40+00:00

From the comment thread:

Basically Wikipedia is a huge social experiment and as such a mirror of society. The notion that Wikipedia is skewed towards technical males from Western culture just supports this because after all that too is a mirror of our society. It doesn't matter whether you are talking about Wikipedia, voluntary initiatives or movements like the Pirate Party in Europe [...]

Guess who founded Wikipedia and the Pirate Party? Technical men (not "males") did, and there were few women that helped them with the pioneering work. I wonder if the commentor also thinks that's a mirror of society?

Either way, now that Wikipedia has finally become the great succes that it is today - suddenly women appear on stage, crying that they've been left out. Where were they when the hard work had to be done?

rapiertwit · 2013-10-25T10:10:28+00:00

Wikipedia isn't working because academia hates it. The whole idea was that academics would join in the fun, because love of human knowledge. But academics bristle at the thought of having to rub shoulders with degree-less self-appointed "experts."

2013-10-25T04:17:02+00:00

The writer does his best to shoehorn a feminist agenda into his explanation of whatever higher-derivative decline Wikipedia has suffered since 2007. But I'm not sure if even he's convinced that there's an underused army of female talent who'd revitalize Wikipedia if only the misogynistic nerds would get out of the way.

2013-10-25T06:54:26+00:00

Wait, I thought men were at fault for contributing to Wikipedia too much...I'M SO CONFUSED.

ZimbaZumba · 2013-10-25T13:08:16+00:00

Wikipedia is Orwell's Animal Farm in real life. Wikipedia started as an optimistic, open and free entity. With time, some animals became more equal than others and it spiraled into a hierarchical and dictatorial dystopia just as Orwell would have predicted.

Unless very carefully designed checks and balances are in place, building a society or institution from scratch that is accountable to no one leads to Animal farm. We see this time and time again, eg with Cambodia, the "Take Back Wall Street" movement and an untold number of historically recent 'Democracies'.

theandycc · 2013-10-25T11:54:40+00:00

Did you know? Volunteers are like employees who you can dictate work to.

I see no evidence that "new people are being pushed away". Come back when you have something more than sensationalist speculation

Title	Wikipedia in decline. Obviously this is men's fault.
Author	bigbadbyte
Upvotes	13
Comments	9
Date	October 25, 2013 2:42 AM UTC (12 years ago)
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