Jimmy Wales has a new social network
He's not hiring any moderators
I have a feeling it will end up like the... wiki wiki wild wild west
@troubleMoney Oh no.
I really thought this was just a setup for a pun.
It's real and it's a terrible idea.
@troubleMoney Wikipedia has a huge problem with transphobes, misogynists, and racists patrolling articles and, for example, keeping trans people's dead names in articles. And he expects the same policies to produce a better social network than FB? He must know how fucked it is.
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I mean true, but it was just an example I could think of why someone might want a dead name in an article, to link works over a period of time.
@naia @troubleMoney
The first example that leaps to mind is how the article on Wendy Carlos has a picture of her from when she was in high school, in 1958, years before she became a public figure and when she was still presenting as a boy. The talk page is riddled with arguments over the photo, but because of a small number of people patrolling the article and stonewalling (ha!) its removal, it stays in.
@naia @troubleMoney Nobody except for Jimbo looks at Wikipedia and thinks, "This is an ideal way for a community to run"
@naia @troubleMoney True, but he's claiming that his social media platform doesn't need mods because it will self police...like Wikipedia (doesn't).
ex. I appeared in LogoTV: What!? I think I'm An Animal as Shiro Ulv. The name "Naia" was not mentioned as I did not go by it at the time. It may be useful for my filmography to mention that the Naia that appeared on Anthony Padilla's YT and the Shiro that appeared in the documentary are the same person.
HOWEVER, this clarification should be restricted to the context which it is relevant in. "Formerly X" or "Born X" appearing at the top of the article is not appropriate. A small citation indicating "credited as" in a filmography section would be fine.
This isn't the only way Wikipedia is a terrible community, it just... is.