I was describing to someone how Wikipedia works:
"anyone can edit" etc.
He answered with this argument:
"Wikipedia is the triumph of the average person!
of the man in the street!)"
(average meaning: not good, not bad, just OK)
I asked "why?"
His explanation:
"Great brilliant works are built by individuals.
Groups of people can only create average works.
If someone writes something good in the wiki,
other average persons will intervene with his/her
work and turn it into an average work. If someone
writes something bad in the wiki, the others will
again turn it into something of average value.
with your system (meaning: Wikipedia's system)
you can be sure that you will never create
something too bad but also never something too
good. You can create only average articles."
The idea behind his argument was that Wikipedia
will be a good resource as long as it attracts
good cotnributors. but it will soon become an
average site/encyclopaedia because it allows
anyone to join the project and edit, and most
people are just average persons and not brilliant
writers.
Do you think it's true? and how can we answer
this argument?
--Optim
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On Sunday 28 July 2002 03:00 am, The Cunctator wrote:
> What are the articles this person has been changing?
For 66.108.155.126:
20:08 Jul 27, 2002 Computer
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 Exploit
20:07 Jul 27, 2002 AOL
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
20:05 Jul 27, 2002 Leet
20:03 Jul 27, 2002 Root
20:02 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:59 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:58 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Principle of least astonishment
19:54 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
19:52 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
19:51 Jul 27, 2002 Trance music
For 208.24.115.6:
20:20 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
For 141.157.232.26:
20:19 Jul 27, 2002 Hacker
Most of these were complete replacements with discoherent statements.
Such as "TAP IS THE ABSOLUTE DEFINITION OF THE NOUN HACKER" for Hacker.
For the specifics follow http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Special:Ipblocklist
and look at the contribs.
--mav
Dear Antolepore,
It does seem that you want something fixed on Wikipedia but I am not quiet
sure your current approach would be productive. Please do not start
thinking that any of the people on this list would obey your order. I'd
encourage you to consider your tone and immediately stop the threat and
think of a civil approach to resolving the problem. If you need the help of
one or more of our volunteers on this mailing list, politely request for
assistant.
Thank you
Isaac
On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, 8:36 PM antolepore [gmail.com] <antolepore(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> Please remove all the filters that Vituzzo, the administrator of the
> Italian version of Wikipedia, put on both the antolepore(a)gmail.com
> account and all the IPs that he also blocked in IRC because he made a mess.
> The carabinieri and the state police are investigating the case. Please do
> as I say! Thanks
>
> Il giorno mar 24 set 2019 alle ore 19:20 Sam Oyeyele <samoye_(a)hotmail.com>
> ha scritto:
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>> Apologies for cross-posting. After a successful first iteration of the
>> “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will
>> be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition
>> of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8
>> languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons,
>> which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the
>> contest to over 1,000. About 9 in-person events were also organised for the
>> edit-a-thon in different parts of the world.
>>
>> The contest is organized by a Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine
>> Project",[1] which is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history,
>> works, people, places, and events, that are associated with the cinema,
>> theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the
>> diaspora.
>>
>> If you would love to join this exciting event, please list your username
>> as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page.[2] If you would
>> love to lead this contest for your country or community, please list your
>> name in the coordinators page here.[3] The rapid grants team would be
>> accepting proposals throughout October and November, in case you'd need
>> funds to run local edit-a-thons or some other activities related to this
>> event. Upon listing your name on the coordinators' page, you'd be contacted
>> to talk about the resources you'd need to run the event in your community.
>> You can also contact me directly for any clarifications.
>>
>> Finally, We also need volunteers to handle some aspects of the AfroCine
>> project. These aspects include:
>>
>> 1. Community Liaison: This role essentially involves closely engaging
>> with local communities to support their activities within the scope of
>> Afrocine.
>>
>> 2. Communications: This involves the communications aspects of the
>> project. Sharing relevant information on mailing lists and social media
>> would be the responsibility of this person.
>>
>> 3. MAC Jury: This role involves joining the jury of Months of African
>> Cinema contest. We need as many people as we can get :).
>>
>> 4. Tools: Going forward, we would need relevant tools to better track the
>> metrics and also analyse the general impact of these events. We are calling
>> for Wikimedia volunteers who can navigate wikimedia tools that can be
>> useful for the project.
>>
>> If you would love to help with any of these roles, or some other roles
>> that have not been mentioned, please contact me directly.
>>
>> If you have further questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please
>> reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project
>> talkpages.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Sam Oyeyele.
>>
>> [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
>> [2]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
>> [3]
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Coordinators
>>
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>
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Greetings!
Apologies for cross-posting. After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000. About 9 in-person events were also organised for the edit-a-thon in different parts of the world.
The contest is organized by a Wikimedia project called "The AfroCine Project",[1] which is dedicated to improving the coverage of the history, works, people, places, and events, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.
If you would love to join this exciting event, please list your username as a participant on the English Wikipedia contest page.[2] If you would love to lead this contest for your country or community, please list your name in the coordinators page here.[3] The rapid grants team would be accepting proposals throughout October and November, in case you'd need funds to run local edit-a-thons or some other activities related to this event. Upon listing your name on the coordinators' page, you'd be contacted to talk about the resources you'd need to run the event in your community. You can also contact me directly for any clarifications.
Finally, We also need volunteers to handle some aspects of the AfroCine project. These aspects include:
1. Community Liaison: This role essentially involves closely engaging with local communities to support their activities within the scope of Afrocine.
2. Communications: This involves the communications aspects of the project. Sharing relevant information on mailing lists and social media would be the responsibility of this person.
3. MAC Jury: This role involves joining the jury of Months of African Cinema contest. We need as many people as we can get :).
4. Tools: Going forward, we would need relevant tools to better track the metrics and also analyse the general impact of these events. We are calling for Wikimedia volunteers who can navigate wikimedia tools that can be useful for the project.
If you would love to help with any of these roles, or some other roles that have not been mentioned, please contact me directly.
If you have further questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally or right here on the mailing list or the project talkpages.
Thank you!
Sam Oyeyele.
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Coordinators
Hi all! I would like to share an editing technique that's in use in the
Spanish Wikipedia and I think should be in use everywhere.
It's basically a template <https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantilla:Extracto>
that transcludes the introduction (or any section) of an article into
another article.
So for example, the Spanish article on Science
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia> transcludes the introductions of
the more specific articles on the scientific method, the history of
science, scientific laws, etc. Check it out!
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciencia?action=edit>
Currently there're 375 articles using excerpts
<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor%C3%ADa:Wikipedia:Art%C3%ADculos_con_e…>
and
counting, on topics as diverse as science, philosophy, logic, history,
countries, sports and TV shows.
Excerpts could save tremendous amount of work, avoid inconsistencies
throughout the encyclopedia, funnel collaboration, improve content through
the merging process that the use of the template leads to, and other
benefits.
I created an English version of the template
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Excerpt> but I never got to use it.
There's also some English documentation on the technique
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cascading_content>, for anyone
interested.
Kind regards,