On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 8:50 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 19 September 2012 15:36, Kim Bruning <k...@bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:19:19PM -0700, George Herbert wrote: > >>> I'm curious as to the internal view of the details, but... this is >>> Violet Blue blogging about us. > >> Violet Blue is a known quantity to you? > > > Internet-famous blogger and ex-Boing Boing contributor who now > occasionally posts to CNet. And has pretty clearly less idea of what > journalism constitutes than I did when I was eighteen and started an > indie rock fanzine. I wouldn't mind if the article was just critical > of us, but it's actually incompetent.
Ah, that's not helpful, David. To answer Kim - Yes, known quantity, both online and off. She is an active sex and gender issues journalist / commentator / whatever the heck that role is titled now (not just blogger, she is published in several paper venues on a semi-regular basis). She has a long history (along with her at least then-boyfriend) of having gotten into an online tiff with a Wikipedia contributor to her article that escalated to restraining orders and legal threats in real life, though I don't believe any lawsuits were filed for real. There were real name identification, age, and other issues - both privacy issues, and a legal name change and desire not to be known by her (well sourced) original name. She does not like Wikipedia in general or that editor in particular as a result. It's still not clear to me that the editor did anything wrong by then-current standards, though BLP and current standards would potentially be a different story. It was reasonably clear that Violet Blue and her boyfriend or fiancee at the time (whose current status I do not know) edited and discussed confrontationally on-wiki for some time, regarding the incident, along with the real-world legal threats. It's been years, and I believe it's all calmed down, but she evidently and not surprisingly still has a strong and somewhat negative opinion of Wikipedia. She is or was living somewhere in San Francisco but despite knowing a number of people in related communities I have not to my knowledge met her in person. I've been told by some people that she's perfectly community normative (cough) in behavior and reasonableness in person, for that community. -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l