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Having co-authored a book about Wikipedia's early history, I can tell you more about Wiki administrators and "insiders" then you could possibly absorb. (A book
by metasonix 7y ago
Having co-authored a book about Wikipedia's early history, I can tell you more about Wiki administrators and "insiders" then you could possibly absorb. (A book that will apparently never see the light of day, because publishers are terrified of being sued by Jimmy Wales for "libel". We prepared 2 million words of notes to justify everything, plus thousands of weblinks showing what really happened; to no avail.)
Antandrus, the middle-aged California music teacher who wrote this prime example of Wikipedia insider lies, is a complete nobody. On Wikipedia or anywhere else. But they like him and he sticks around, because he pushes the status quo and the party line like a good little Soviet apparatchik. We only know his first name, because he went to deeply insane amounts of effort to hide his real identity.
- baud147258 7y agoYou could just publish the book for free on internet
- admax88q 7y agoDoesn't even have to be free, you could sell it on the internet. Self publishing is easier than it has ever been. Sounds more like an excuse than a reason.
- metasonix 7y agoMy co-author wants it to be thru a major publisher or an academic house. Self-publishing means the WMF can just call it a "crank job on a website" and claim it wasn't checked for accuracy.