何かと妙な展開を見せている、パレスチナ問題に関するWikipedia の項目改編騒動。
その仕掛け人ともいえる Gilead Ini 氏が、International Herald Tribune に "The failure of Wikipedia" という題の記事を投稿していたのだが・・・。
・Finding one's humanity; The failure of Wikipedia（2008年5月11日 iht.com；nytimes.com）
前回、CAMERA が出した Wikipedia 改編を呼びかける声明については以下を参照。
・Wikipediaに逆ギレするCAMERA（2008年5月9日 flagburner's blog(仮)）
今回 iht.com に投稿した記事でも、Ini 氏はお決まりの主張を繰り返していた。
以下 iht.com から、Ini 氏の記事を面倒だけど全文を引用しておく。
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The failure of Wikipedia
It's perhaps inevitable that those seeking to improve Wikipedia's often-unreliable articles on the Middle East would be targeted for criticism by partisans who might prefer the status quo.
So allegations against the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or Camera, a group that monitors Middle East coverage for factual accuracy, by the pro-Palestinian group Electronic Intifada - and by David Duke, who approvingly published Electronic Intifada's article on his own Web site - are not surprising.
Nor are they the key issue.
What is most important is that the millions of people who visit Wikipedia understand the serious shortcomings of this Web 2.0 phenomenon.
According to Citizendium, a competing online encyclopedia created by the Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, who was unhappy with the direction that project was heading, Wikipedia is "part anarchy, part mob rule.
The people with the most influence in the community are the ones who have the most time on their hands - not necessarily the most knowledgeable - and who manipulate Wikipedia's eminently gameable system."
Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica, described Wikipedia as more of a "game" than an encyclopedia, and the source of "some very, very bad stuff."
We agree.
Wikipedia's leadership will have to figure out how the experiment can be fixed.
Until then, the only hope for improvement is to have more fair-minded people find the time to edit Wikipedia for accuracy and objectivity.
Gilead Ini, Boston Senior research analyst Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
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自分達のやった事を一切恥じることもなく堂々と自説を振りかざす Ini 氏の文を読んでると、少しばかり悲しくなってくるのよね。
いや、こういう言説が未だに罷り通ってるという意味で・・・。
2008年6月4日追記：
この騒動に関する Jerusalem Post の記事。
・Wiki-Warfare: Battle for the on-line encyclopedia（2008年5月13日 jpost.com）
Web2.0 の世界を力が全て、とみる主張には賛同できないが・・・。
その仕掛け人ともいえる Gilead Ini 氏が、International Herald Tribune に "The failure of Wikipedia" という題の記事を投稿していたのだが・・・。
・Finding one's humanity; The failure of Wikipedia（2008年5月11日 iht.com；nytimes.com）
前回、CAMERA が出した Wikipedia 改編を呼びかける声明については以下を参照。
・Wikipediaに逆ギレするCAMERA（2008年5月9日 flagburner's blog(仮)）
今回 iht.com に投稿した記事でも、Ini 氏はお決まりの主張を繰り返していた。
以下 iht.com から、Ini 氏の記事を面倒だけど全文を引用しておく。
---- 以下引用 ----
The failure of Wikipedia
It's perhaps inevitable that those seeking to improve Wikipedia's often-unreliable articles on the Middle East would be targeted for criticism by partisans who might prefer the status quo.
So allegations against the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, or Camera, a group that monitors Middle East coverage for factual accuracy, by the pro-Palestinian group Electronic Intifada - and by David Duke, who approvingly published Electronic Intifada's article on his own Web site - are not surprising.
Nor are they the key issue.
What is most important is that the millions of people who visit Wikipedia understand the serious shortcomings of this Web 2.0 phenomenon.
According to Citizendium, a competing online encyclopedia created by the Wikipedia co-founder, Larry Sanger, who was unhappy with the direction that project was heading, Wikipedia is "part anarchy, part mob rule.
The people with the most influence in the community are the ones who have the most time on their hands - not necessarily the most knowledgeable - and who manipulate Wikipedia's eminently gameable system."
Robert McHenry, a former editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia Britannica, described Wikipedia as more of a "game" than an encyclopedia, and the source of "some very, very bad stuff."
We agree.
Wikipedia's leadership will have to figure out how the experiment can be fixed.
Until then, the only hope for improvement is to have more fair-minded people find the time to edit Wikipedia for accuracy and objectivity.
Gilead Ini, Boston Senior research analyst Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America
---- 引用以上 ----
自分達のやった事を一切恥じることもなく堂々と自説を振りかざす Ini 氏の文を読んでると、少しばかり悲しくなってくるのよね。
いや、こういう言説が未だに罷り通ってるという意味で・・・。
2008年6月4日追記：
この騒動に関する Jerusalem Post の記事。
・Wiki-Warfare: Battle for the on-line encyclopedia（2008年5月13日 jpost.com）
Web2.0 の世界を力が全て、とみる主張には賛同できないが・・・。
