[WikiEN-l] BBC article on Flagged Revisions

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:

[Chinese clothing]

> 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...)

There are political overtones as well. Apparently this sort of
clothing is not common in mainland China since the Cultural
Revolution. Though places like Hong Kong and Taiwan presumably still
use it. But this is getting off-topic. Back to Flagged Revisions.

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Carcharoth