I was born in 1978 in Kerala, India to parents belonging to the Nāyar[1]community . I am a research scientist settled in Europe. My interests are mathematics, genetics, history and anthropology. I am a supporter of all non-profit encyclopedia projects that aim to document and provide unbiased objective information cost-free to the public. The generation of collective intelligence and availability of objective collaborative information has profound implications for the organization of business, economies, societies and nations and affects social interactions by shaping our lifestyle resulting in globally affected environments due to more complex relationships between a growing number of geographically distributed participants, creating virtual communities [2]. The intersectionality of virtual communities and gender-race-ethnic groups has led to mis-representation of gender-race-ethnic information in collective collaborative intelligence for creating baseless propaganda for social mobility and thus generating xenophobia in real society. For instance, an analysis of websites displaying caste-based information gives you an idea of the quintessential urge to satiate the thirst of ‘identity crisis’ impacting the bottom lines of socio-politico-cultural-economical cosm of a multi-cultural country such as India. I strongly discourage web based social mobility strategies within the context of intersectionality of virtual communities and gender-race-ethnic groups as these disinformation, deception and propaganda, pervading web-based platforms have far reaching consequences in real life social interactions. A Ph.D thesis written by Felipe Ortega in 2009, a researcher at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid, found that the English Wikipedia had lost 49,000 editors during the first three months of 2009; in comparison, the project lost only 4,900 editors during the same period in 2008.[3][4]. Formers users have noted that the collaborative aspect of maintaining collective intelligence is far from perfect and is rife with squabbling with established editors over their contributions, and new editors are often faced with closely guarded inner circles that control all respective contents (Cabal), each one staking out its territory. This is particularly true with respect to gender-race-ethnic articles being used for social mobility by members in the intersection of virtual communities and race-ethnic groups, often drawing even objective editors un-wittingly in to the whirlpool of un-ethical editing behaviors.
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edit- ^ E. Thurston . Castes and tribes of South India Volime 5
- ^ James Surowiecki. The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations. Doubleday, May 2004
- ^ Jenny Kleeman. "Wikipedia falling victim to a war of words". Guardian.
- ^ "Wikipedia: A quantitative analysis" (PDF).
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