In a message dated 12/11/2008 8:17:02 PM Pacific Standard Time, snowspinner@gmail.com writes:
Another big part is that our policies are shaped heavily by who showed up in the early days of Wikipedia, and that means that they are shaped heavily by a techno-libertarian philosophy that has been, historically, very hostile to postmodernism, and thus, by extension, very hostile to humanities scholarship. It is the case, frankly, that Wikipedia, on a policy level, has a systemic bias against the humanities.>>
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I think yes and no and maybe and also I refuse to answer but only in a post-modernist way.
But maybe you could give a concrete example of where you think there is bias against the humanities. I think that some of the people who shaped the early policies were actually involved in the soft sciences.
Will Johnson
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