<div dir="ltr"><div>Sorry, I understand this list's emotional attachment to Sasha, but it appears to me that Wikipedia did the right thing in removing that page.<br><br></div>-Dave<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 12:45 PM, crw <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:crw@crw.io" target="_blank">crw@crw.io</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 3/8/2016 1:40 AM, Giulio Prisco wrote:<br>
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What to do then? It's a fact that some specific biases tend to<br>
dominate Wikipedia. I have mostly given up on Wikipedia, and these<br>
days make only minor factual edits on non-controversial topics. But of<br>
course that empowers the biased zealots even more. We have discussed a<br>
"Wikipedia Task Force" on this list many times, but never created one.<br>
I guess we all have other things to do... Having said that, I would be<br>
happy to participate in a Wikipedia Task Force.<br>
<br>
On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Anders Sandberg <<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>> wrote:<br>
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On 2016-03-08 09:35, Giulio Prisco wrote:<br>
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That's why instead of one social system there should be many.<br>
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Economies of scale.<br>
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Wikipedia could make more flexible use of the namespace system to effectively bolt a 'subreddit-like-entity' onto each and every article. Different schools of thought could then be better represented and (depending on how the UI/UX is done) unpopular views could be more discoverable.<br>
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The Talk: namespace can be painful to trudge through, for even relatively uncontroversial articles. This might be by-design - one would have to really care about a subject to bother to tread there. Breaking that namespace out in the spirit of "let a thousand flowers bloom" could certainly address the issue, while at the same time creating additional administrative overhead (dealing with abuse, spam, etc, yuck). Maybe worth the trade-off?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-crw.</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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