Sour Times
January 2, 2016 7:42 PM Subscribe
The third link explains:
"Sour Times (in Turkish, Ekşi Sözlük) is a big deal in Turkey. A combination of Urban Dictionary [...], the Meaning of Liff [...] and Wikipedia" and it's now under legal threat.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:17 PM on January 2, 2016
"Sour Times (in Turkish, Ekşi Sözlük) is a big deal in Turkey. A combination of Urban Dictionary [...], the Meaning of Liff [...] and Wikipedia" and it's now under legal threat.
posted by LobsterMitten at 8:17 PM on January 2, 2016
Why did Ekşi Sözlük get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:28 PM on January 2, 2016 [8 favorites]
That's nobody's business but the Turks.
posted by oneswellfoop at 8:28 PM on January 2, 2016 [8 favorites]
What ES reminds me of most, in terms of content and usage, is a website from the '90s whose name I have forgotten. You could post an article on any subject or add to one already there, and at the bottom of the page there were a bunch of hyperlinks to related terms and articles. A bit like Ward's Wiki but full of cranks and creative writers. It was all very Web 1.0 in its plain HTML. Ekşi Sözlük doesn't look like that site did, but it has the same feeling of participatory creation of categories along with content.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:56 PM on January 2, 2016 [1 favorite]
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:56 PM on January 2, 2016 [1 favorite]
You could post an article on any subject or add to one already there, and at the bottom of the page there were a bunch of hyperlinks to related terms and articles
Sounds like a little bit of Everything.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:58 PM on January 2, 2016 [4 favorites]
Sounds like a little bit of Everything.
posted by the man of twists and turns at 8:58 PM on January 2, 2016 [4 favorites]
Yes, that's exactly the site I was remembering.
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:59 PM on January 2, 2016
posted by Harvey Kilobit at 8:59 PM on January 2, 2016
With such a restricted media environment, Eksi Sozluk is an important source for Turks to learn about what's actually going on around them. The government has tried to shut it down dozens of times; its victories have kept information free during times like the Gezi Park protests in 2013. Zeynep Tufkeci points out that its presence on the web for so long helped strengthen the use of Twitter; Turks have been using the internet for decades to spread free information, thanks to Eksi.
posted by Theiform at 4:33 AM on January 3, 2016 [4 favorites]
posted by Theiform at 4:33 AM on January 3, 2016 [4 favorites]
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