[WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

Philip Sandifer snowspinner at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 00:37:34 UTC 2009


On Jan 26, 2009, at 7:11 PM, Carcharoth wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Philip Sandifer <snowspinner at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2009, at 10:16 AM, William King wrote:
>>
>>> The BBC has an article on the Flagged Revisions controversy:
>>>
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7851400.stm
>>
>> I'm sure there's context for the photo, but I still have to wonder
>> why, of all the photos of Jimbo that exist in the world, they picked
>> the one of him in a dress.
>
> I think it is a Chinese top.

As I said, I'm sure there is context - I would assume it was from the  
Taipei Wikimania, etc. And that it is cropped so that it looks more  
feminine than it probably actually did.

Still, the BBC picked a photo where he appears to be wearing a dress.  
And this was not for lack of other options.

-Phil



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