{"id":891,"date":"2007-09-28T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=891"},"modified":"2007-09-28T09:28:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T15:28:45","slug":"the_wikiclique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"The wiki-clique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIO magazine has a long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com\/article\/141650\/Wikipedia_s_Awkward_Adolescence\/1\">article<\/a> by K. G. Schneider, writer of the Free Range Librarian blog, about Wikipedia&#8217;s difficulties as it &#8220;emerges from its charmed childhood to struggle with its awkward adolescence.&#8221; She describes some of the symptoms of the encyclopedia&#8217;s in-bred bureaucracy, such as the proliferation of private and exclusive jargon:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As Wikipedia ages, its editors increasingly write in a bureaucratic patois thick with internal jargon and acronyms, making it difficult to decipher the rationale for their decisions. The webpage discussing the suitability of Salon as a source for Wikipedia articles tosses around terms such as BLP (Biographies of Living Persons), WP:RS (Wikipedia: Reliable Sources), WP:AGF (Wikipedia: Assume Good Faith), or WP:RfAr \u2014 the ominous-sounding &#8220;Wikipedia: Requests for Arbitration,&#8221; also described as &#8220;the last step of dispute resolution on Wikipedia.&#8221; WP:RfAr turns out to be a misnomer, because articles can go on probation. When this happens, Wikipedia cautions that &#8220;[Editors] of such articles should be ESPECIALLY mindful of content policies, such as WP:NPOV, etc. and interaction policies, like WP:CIVIL and WP:NPA&#8221; (respectively, Neutral Point of View, Civility, and [Personal] Attacks).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Schneider notes that, in contrast to Wikipedia&#8217;s public image as a radically egalitarian undertaking, &#8220;edits made by those outside the informal circle of leadership may not stick very long. The quieter rumblings about Wikipedia have less to do with vanity edits or poor maintenance of content than they do with the organization&#8217;s increasingly arbitrary editorial overrides and deletions and rapidly thickening in-group culture.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIO magazine has a long article by K. G. Schneider, writer of the Free Range Librarian blog, about Wikipedia&#8217;s difficulties as it &#8220;emerges from its charmed childhood to struggle with its awkward adolescence.&#8221; She describes some of the symptoms of the encyclopedia&#8217;s in-bred bureaucracy, such as the proliferation of private and exclusive jargon: As Wikipedia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}