OOXML, Wikipedia, and whitewashing

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I'm still pissed about OOXML, and the standardisation process.

Have a read of the wikipedia article.

That certainly doesn't sound like my understanding of it - there's about 3 lines of content throughout the entire thing talking about the criticism of it, and the standards process.

What the?
You would thinks that at least the technical arguments against OOXML would fit somewhere on the main page, wouldn't you.

So, delving deeper; we discover this is mainly due to one editor with a hard on for OOXML.

His about page doesn't tell you much, except:

"From that work I have various interest in interapplication communication, real time and batch textual data interfaces, electronic archiving, datawarehousing and flexible data in documents (of which we produce millions every year)."

If you look at his edits, it's all very pro-microsoft, ever since he joined the site.

Now that's not a bad thing by itself - after all, it might just be his area of expertise; but to have a minuscule amount of criticism over a file format which created street protests during the standardisation process; primarily due to his efforts - that's just not on.

No need to be sheepish

I cannot believe how little wikipedia has about shearing.

I need to improve and expand these articles.

Makybe Diva Crosses The Wiki Line

Tuesday, 1 November, 2005, Makybe Diva crosses the finish line of the Melbourne Cup for a record third time. I personally wasn't as impressed by that, as by the fact that within seconds, Wikipedia was up to date with details of the win.

Seconds. Within moments of it being broadcast via television it was eternally etched into history.