Re:The curious case of Croatian wikipedia
by duelingjello on Sunday December 08, 2019 @03:04PM
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Steering clear of the underlying, complicated regional politics:
The survivor (victim/perpetrator/some of both/neither) writes history, descendants rewrite it. (How else would we get "Whalers on the Moon?") Yet, the web complicates it as a living organism of impermanence/bit-rot, fiefdom platforms and essentially unaccountable anonymity.
Further complicating reality, bias is as inescapable as the human condition, the unconscious variety being somewhat irreducible; while the integrity of the amateur copywriter (fairness, completeness, quality, accuracy and correctness) is implicitly (if not explicitly) socially-contracted to deliberately aspire to such ideals in each task.
The survivor (victim/perpetrator/some of both/neither) writes history, descendants rewrite it. (How else would we get "Whalers on the Moon?") Yet, the web complicates it as a living organism of impermanence/bit-rot, fiefdom platforms and essentially unaccountable anonymity.
Further complicating reality, bias is as inescapable as the human condition, the unconscious variety being somewhat irreducible; while the integrity of the amateur copywriter (fairness, completeness, quality, accuracy and correctness) is implicitly (if not explicitly) socially-contracted to deliberately aspire to such ideals in each task.