My one issue with fashion wiki is the licensing. It's a copyrighted wiki:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(60, 62, 66); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(240, 237, 232);">(a) Unless otherwise indicated, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">My Lemmings Pty Ltd reserves all copyright in the Content and design of <a href="http://wikifashion.com">wikifashion.com</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: rgb(240, 237, 232);"> (b) My Lemmings Pty Ltd owns all such copyright or uses it under licence or applicable law to Users of Users of <a href="http://wikifashion.com">wikifashion.com</a>. (c) Other than for the purposes of and subject to the conditions prescribed under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) (or any other applicable legislation throughout the world), or as otherwise provided for in this copyright notice, no part of any Content may in any form or by any means (including framing, screen scraping, electronic, mechanical, microcopying, photocopying or recording) be reproduced, adapted, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted without the prior written permission of My Lemmings Pty Ltd. (d) My Lemmings Pty Ltd is the owner of several trade marks which appear on its Website. Unauthorised use of these trade marks will infringe our intellectual property rights. (e) My Lemmings Pty Ltd reserves all other rights in Content and <a href="http://wikifashion.com">wikifashion.com</a>.</span></i></span></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3e42" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; "><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3e42" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">I have asked about this on Quora where I know the wikiFashion founders are active in answering questions and have never gotten an answer. <br>
</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3e42" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#3c3e42" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px;">A similar area where Wikipedia is lacking is cosmetics and I don't mean in terms of how to create makeup looks or pictures of every shade of nail polish, but general information on cosmetics companies like Cover Girl and Maybelline. I think there needs to more information on the history of each company as well as criticisms. In addition, those articles are lacking in citations. <br>
</span></font></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Sarah Stierch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarah.stierch@gmail.com">sarah.stierch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Fred Bauder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fredbaud@fairpoint.net" target="_blank">fredbaud@fairpoint.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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><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><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" target="_blank">http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Wikifashion:Contributors_Needed</a><br>
<br><br><br>Sarah<br><br><br></div></div><font color="#888888">-- <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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