[Gllug] DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism - Jaron Lanier

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 10:14 am, Ryland, Peter said:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 09:41 +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> On Wed, May 31, 2006 9:33 am, Ryland, Peter said:
>> > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 21:42 +0100, M.Blackmore wrote:
>> >> (JARON LANIER:) My Wikipedia entry identifies me (at least this week)
>> as
>> >> a film director. It is true I made one experimental short film about
>> a
>> >> decade and a half ago. The concept was awful: I tried to imagine what
>> >> Maya Deren would have done with morphing. It was shown once at a film
>> >> festival and was never distributed and I would be most comfortable if
>> no
>> >> one ever sees it again. __In the real world it is easy to not direct
>> >> films. I have attempted to retire from directing films in the
>> >> alternative universe that is the Wikipedia a number of times, but
>> >> somebody always overrules me. Every time my Wikipedia entry is
>> >> corrected, within a day I'm turned into a film director again. I can
>> >> think of no more suitable punishment than making these determined
>> >> Wikipedia goblins actually watch my one small old movie.
>> >
>> > I can find no evidence of this claim.  The wikipedia entry seems never
>> > to have included anything about this supposed film-directing career,
>> nor
>> > does it show anything in the history to suggest he indeed
>> unsuccessfully
>> > attempted to edit the page a number of times.
>> >
>> Well, I can see he (or someone claiming to be him)certainly attempted to
>> remove references to the video
>
> Ok, now I see it.  I would have expected him to have at least put in a
> comment to the changes.  Instead he seems to actually be surprised that
> people revert his anonymous defacings of his page.  At no point is it
> clear that he's defacing the whole page for any reason.  Surely he could
> have just removed the two words "film maker" and put in a comment, and
> perhaps even done so non-anonymously rather than persisting in defacing
> the page.  Actually, it seems he has a history of defacing wikipedia:
>
Yes, he attacks Wikipedia but plainly doesn't know how to use it properly.
In my experience if he gave good citations for his points then it is
likely his edits would stand.

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