[WikiEN-l] Guardian article about Wikipedia

Mon Oct 24 16:09:58 UTC 2005

Charles Matthews wrote:

>The only thing that stands out is that we should send for a fashion victim,
>right now, to fix up [[haute couture]].
>Might be a little harder than finding a Linux wizard ...

Thank goodness for that. In a Wikipedia with otherwise really very
good and *useful* computer articles (i.e., I use it as my standard
reference in real life), [[Linux]] is a POV-pushing dog's breakfast of
advocacy. This happens with a lot of open source-related articles,
because too many contributors really do not understand NPOV in any
context whatsoever, only advocacy. I've tried fixing it in the past,
but the effort of holding back the tide made me wish I was working on
more peacable areas of the wiki, like Israel-Palestine topics.

It's the same problem [[George W. Bush]] has. Some topics have
*entirely too much* interest for editors, to the detriment of readers.

- d.