{"id":6313,"date":"2014-12-02T19:03:59","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/frog\/?p=6313"},"modified":"2014-12-02T19:03:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T19:03:59","slug":"salt-china-and-wikipedia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2014\/12\/salt-china-and-wikipedia\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt, China, and Wikipedia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slate has a post up on the abolition of the Chinese salt monopoly<\/a>, and they are amazed\u00a0 that something that has existed for 2,600 years is now being abolished. It’s just a short little piece and there is no harm to it, but there is a “China changes after thousands of years of not changing” vibe to it. I was thinking of doing a short post on how complex the history of salt in China actually is. I quickly found out that. Wikipedia has a very nice entry on Salt in Chinese History<\/a> . If you look at the Talk page you will see that<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0???<\/a><\/td>\nThis article has not yet received a rating on the project’s quality scale<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0???<\/a><\/td>\nThis article has not yet received a rating on the project’s importance scale<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

in other words, it is not a typical Wikipedia entry and they could not figure out what to do with it.\u00a0 In fact it is rather well-done, and summarizes most of the existing English-language literature. A lot of this has been done by a Canadian named Madalibi and someone named CWH<\/a>, who I assume is Constance Wilhelmina Haversack . CWH has over 10,000 edits, and if you look at a lot of them they have no rating, as if Wikipedia’s hive mind has no idea what to make of them. It’s a nice example of how on-line China resources are evolving.<\/p>\n

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