Zo. Dat is dat, dan, vermoed ik, voor wat Jimbo betreft?
Essjay houdt de eer aan zich, alles is weer koek en ei? Nee, ‘t zal mij benieuwen wat uiteindelijk de echte lessen zullen zijn—if any—die ze er daar gaan uit trekken.
De feiten: Essjay is één van de meest gerespecteerde Wikipedia-mensen, reist op géén tijd door alle mogelijke rangen en eindigt uiteindelijk in Wikia uit, het bedrijf van Jimbo Wales (mede-uitvinder van Wikipedia). Maar ondertussen blijkt, via een erratum bij een artikel in The New Yorker, dat Essjay helemaal geen professor theologie is, maar gewoon een vierentwintigjarige mythomaan met veel tijd op zijn handen.
Uzelf een andere identiteit geven on-line als off-line is één zaak. Uzelf uitgeven voor een professor met diploma’s en ervaring up the wazoo, is een heel andere zaak. Die diploma’s en ervaring rondzwieren op Wikipedia om allerlei gezagsargumenten mee te onderbouwen (“ik kan u niet zeggen hoeveel keer ik mijn studenten dit heb moeten uitleggen”, “ik zal het toch wel weten zeker”, dat soort uitspraken), is nóg iets anders.
En uiteindelijk komt het allemaal weer neer op ons kent ons, en het groepje aan de top dat zichzelf beschermt en Jimbo Wales als het centrum van het universum beschouwt, en they must think the sun shines out of his arse, en tralala, tralalie. En The Usual Suspects die met ongetwijfeld meer dan gewoon leedvermaak commentaar geven, natuurlijk: ‘t is precies voor dergelijke zaken dat Sanger cum suis al lang waarschuwen.
Nee, Wikipedia wordt alsmaar ickier en ickier. Aan de oppervlakte is het allemaal nog zo geen groot probleem, maar begeef u iets dieper en het is een perfecte afspiegeling van het beste én het slechtste van alle gelijkaardige op vrijwilligers gebaseerde initiatieven.
Ik trek alvast een virtuele zak chips open en ik zet mij rustig neer. Eens benieuwd wat de volgende dagen gaan brengen.
[voorspelling: niets ten duvel]
update o kijk, Essjay heeft alsnog een korte uitleg gelaten:
My comments here will be short and to the point: I’m no longer taking part here. I have received an astounding amount of support, especially by email, but it’s time to go. I tried to walk away in August, and managed to do so for quite a while, but I eventually came back, because of the many requests I received urging me to return. Many of you have written to ask me to not leave, to not give up what I have here, but I’m afraid it’s time to make a clean break.
I ask that the first steward to see this message please remove my various flags from this wiki, as well as from Meta, Commons, and Wikiquote, and remove the bot flags from my bots, which of course will no longer be running. My tools will be taken down shortly. I had planned to delete my user-space myself, but I don’t want anyone to think I was going on a rampage, so instead, I ask that one or more administrators who are friends please delete the 288 pages that form my userspace (leaving only my userpage and this talk page).
I’ve enjoyed my time here, and done much good work; my time, however, is over, and leaving is the best thing for me and for Wikipedia. I walk away happy to be free to go about other things. I hope others will refocus the energy they have spent the past few days in defending and denouncing me to make something here at Wikipedia better.
With love to all who have been my friends here, Essjay (Talk) 03:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
Last Chance To See dus, want binnenkort zal het allemaal weg zijn!
update2: ‘t is zo ongeveer allemaal weg. En Jason Scott brengt, zoals wel vaker, een fijne fijne samenvatting van het geheel.
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Ik vind het wel triest hoor, dit hele verhaal, het doet Wikipedia zeker geen goed en da’s jammer.
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