User:Erik Jesse

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About this user Beliefs User:Ravichandar84/skeptical agn This user is an agnostic. This user supports the use of green energy. Interests This user is interested in flags and emblems. This user is a history buff. This user is interested in coin collecting. This user is interested in art history. Wiki-specific This user is interested in Linguistics. This user is interested in political science. Other gk This user is a geek. pseudonyms This user is bold; therefore he doesn't hide his real name This user is a bibliophile. This user enjoys Classical music

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I regard "the dominance of difficult people, trolls, and their enablers" (Larry Sanger) as a grave threat to Wikipedia. I finished a course last term with a longer essay entitled Wikipedia as a Means of Internet Trolling – I found lots of material when surfing here (I'll publish the essay on the web, as soon as I find the text). All in all, I think that Wikipedia was initially a great idea, but its problems are numerous. The core problem is actually the unwillingness of Wikipedia's leadership to give up old fetishes (anonymous editing, lack of any kind of academic hierarchy and so forth). By now, the project seems to be completely overrun by different troll gangs, e.g the infamous Cyber-USSR grouping (see a list of their victims here). With regard to this, I think that to

Profess obstinate silence, that's now my safest

(Ben Jonson Volpone, Act III, Scene II.)


Due to those and other reasons, I am transferring my wiki activities to Citizendium, and if anyone's interested, I'm also setting up my homepage here: http://geocities.com/erik_jesse/.