Thursday, March 01, 2007

Wikipedia's split Identity

It's been a while since I've delved into Wikipedia's resources on identity. Truly, Wikipedians have made a rambling rabbit warren of the subject. A cursory browse from the Identity disambiguation page yields:
Hum, groping my way around this rickity taxonomy and thence through the rambling, insight-lite, citation-laden prose of many of the individual pages, I start to appreciate Nick Carr's point about the propensity of the Commons for mediocrity as never before .

Perhaps Identity Society could help to improve the situation over time by rolling up our collective editorial sleeves to bring some much-needed coherence and focus to Wikipedia's identity articles?

*I see that large chunks of my original "Digital identity" article remain, including the definition (in two parts—the first of which represented my own opinion, the second a somewhat reluctant nod to the consensus, circa autumn 2005, of the übergeek Identity Gang on the topic). Incidentally, I have come to believe that "digital identity" is an oxymoron: identity is in our heads and souls.

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