Comments: My _Guardian_ column on Wikipedia, advertising, Jimmy Wales's proselytizing

I did a short parody of corporate executives posing as social visionaries...

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/icommons/Week-of-Mon-20080121/001153.html

The original is here...

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/icommons/Week-of-Mon-20080121/001152.html


Posted by DM at September 25, 2008 08:32 AM

Brilliant article. I've long believed the editorial structure of Wikipedia is fundamentally flawed - on disputed articles, it is a Mad Max world of ideological, ethnic, religious, nationalist and vested interest groups fighting to the point of threatening violence. And serenely presiding over it all is the chummy character of James Wales. If altruism was the real motive, then the project's flaws would be ironed out by now.

Posted by Dan at September 28, 2008 04:35 AM