荷蘭阿姆斯特丹大學學生創作的 Masters of Media 去年 10 月 12 日發表了一篇文章〈Shocklog:向全世界介紹這個詞〉,很爆笑地指出,當他們很努力要跟全世界介紹這個荷蘭「眾所皆知」(不知道真的還是假的,反正他們這麼說)的詞 shocklog 時,英文維基百科的編輯們站出來把他們的英文文章啟動了「待刪程序」(就是準備要砍掉的意思)。這同樣對英文的維基百科、English wikipedia 提出了一個有趣的問題:「如果英文維基人要刪你所撰寫的、關於非英文內容(什麼叫做非英文內容?)的英文文章,這算合理還是不合理?」
真是有趣啊。Geert Lovink 在 nettime-l 上撰寫短評,點出有意思的文化政治罩門:
non-Anglo knowledge… Best, Geert
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deletion debate. Jayden54Bot 13:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
seemingly a violation of Wikipedia:Avoid neologisms Cornell Rockey 02:00, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Merge with Blog, as a “Shocklog” is a type of blog. Flakeloaf 04:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Delete Lacks sources demonstration sufficient use to satisfy WP:NEO. Sources consist of a couple of foreign-language blogs and an on-line Master’s thesis. Need published sources complying with WP:RS
–Shirahadasha 04:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Delete, basically a neologism, and an imprecise one at that. Is Stile Project a “shocklog”? Lankiveil 05:16, 21 January 2007 (UTC).
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On 17 Jan 2007, at 11:54 AM, Geert Lovink wrote:
(dear nettimers, together with students of the masters-of-media blog at the university of amsterdam i have been working on a wikipedia entry about so-called shock logs or shock blogs. it is been an interesting < ...>

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