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On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Carcharoth wrote:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 8:58 PM, Alvaro García wrote:
WHY ON EARTH is Jimbo wearing a Japanese dress?
Excuse me. Jimbo wearing a 'Japanese dress' would look more like this:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:JimmyWales_wearing_...
In the BBC article, Jimbo is not wearing anything Japanese, but rather wearing a traditional - almost stereotypical - Chinese garment called a qipao (see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cheongsam).
Or maybe the male equivalent?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changshan
Carcharoth
An easy mistake indeed. But didn't you know Jimbo always cross-dresses for major occasions to underline the subversiveness of Wikipedia and as a shout-out to its many LBGT editors?
(But seriously, the Cheongsam article didn't make clear that it referred only to female garments. Time to go edit it...)
- -- gwern