{"id":1130,"date":"2009-03-26T03:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2009-03-26T03:30:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T03:30:00","slug":"wikipedias-gnostic-kerfuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1130","title":{"rendered":"Wikipedia’s Gnostic Kerfuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Stratford, Gnostic priest and writer in Victoria, B.C., blogs about possible prejudice against present-day Gnosticism<\/a> on the part of the Wikipedia cabal.<\/p>\n

My own experience with Wikipedia is tiny — making minor edits on three or four articles — but I know that there are people who must spend hours every day on it.<\/p>\n

Other stories about “revert wars” and similar cyber-squabbles involving political figures are common enough, so I can believe that one or two judgmental editors could mess with (in this case) Gnosticism too.<\/p>\n

For some reason, Pagan-related articles have fared better. But I know that some of the Pagan editors are the same folks who were on the former Compuserve<\/a> Pagan forum circa 1990–people who spend an awful lot of time in cyberspace.<\/p>\n

As for modern Gnosticism, another trove of articles<\/a> exists at the website of the former Gnosis<\/em> magazine. Founding editor Jay Kinney is himself a priest of the Ecclesia Gnostica<\/a>, a contemporary Gnostic church started by Stephan Hoeller (who thus far is still in Wikipedia<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

There might be a lesson here about depending too much on Wikipedia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jordan Stratford, Gnostic priest and writer in Victoria, B.C., blogs about possible prejudice against present-day Gnosticism on the part of the Wikipedia cabal. My own experience with Wikipedia is tiny — making minor edits on three or four articles — but I know that there are people who must spend hours every day on it. 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