<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Fred Bauder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredbaud@fairpoint.net">fredbaud@fairpoint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html" target="_blank">http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/students-startup-weaves-a-web-that-keeps-growing-20110914-1k9hi.html</a><br>
</blockquote><div><br><i>''If you look at Wikipedia, a lot of the [fashion] designer or brand
pages do not have a lot of information on them, and Wikipedia does not
really focus on images, so you will not ever find the new collections or
[fashion] look books on there,'' she says.
<br><br>''At the moment, there is no central database for fashion, a location
where a girl can find the latest look book for Marc Jacobs or the first
collection for Chanel. Either they are not there or they are on a host
of different websites, so we want to create all of that in one place.''</i><div style="overflow: hidden; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;">
<i><br></i>...uh..it's called Style.com and it's the greatest fashion website, <i>ever</i>, and has been for almost ten years. (Always makes me laugh that people in the fashion world forget men are as into fashion as much as women are, too!) <br>
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<a href="http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Main_Page</a><br></blockquote><div><br>I really like the layout and such of the website. I do think it's kind of interesting, that for a fashion website, they don't have any copyright data for the photographs they are using (most are copyrighted), fair use mentions, etc. After reading a few pages in the Designer category... (and as someone recovering from a career in the fashion industry) it's a mix of preachy bias content about how amazing certain designers are (Yes, Karl Lagerfeld is awesome, I have to admit), small time or no-name designers who write their own articles and upload photos of their designs, etc, or cut and paste unsourced content. The website started in 2008 and most articles have under 8 edits and lack special mark up. It is promotional enough, they also have one paid advert and is not a non-profit org ;) <br>
<br>Perhaps this is what people want? ;) <br><br>I suppose I'm being debbie downer (as usual) but, I tend to look at female dominated Wiki's and see what makes them different, with a critical eye, to see what *we* are doing right and wrong, and vice versa. <br>
<br>I do like this though (scroll down to badges), not the portraits..but the round badges. I'd love to see something like this developed for Wikipedia. I'd have them on my tumblr, etc. <br><br><a href="http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Wikifashion:Contributors_Needed">http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Wikifashion:Contributors_Needed</a><br>
<br><br><br>Sarah<br><br><br></div></div>-- <br><a href="http://www.glamwiki.org" target="_blank">GLAMWIKI Partnership Ambassador for Wikimedia</a><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SarahStierch" target="_blank">Wikipedian-in-Residence, Archives of American Art</a> <br>
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