David Gerard wrote:
Andrew Lih wrote:
I used to tell folks writing for wiki was easy, and the inclusiveness of it has to do with not being like a database or data entry system. That has changed with templating now being extensively used around the Wikimedia projects.
Nowadays I pretty much tell new contributors "just write a few paragraphs and INCLUDE REFERENCES and don't worry about the fancy markup for now. Just INCLUDE THE REFERENCES and people will know it's a real article about a real thing."
Absolutely! Speaking as the one who has been pushing the POV on Wiktionary that even vocabulary needs to be referenced, I am amazed by the people who consider some number of Google hits as evidence. Some of the most common offending terms are those that seek to rename sexual practices, or characterize some kind of on-line activity. A large proportion of these terms may indeed be valid, but that requires some kind of documentation to distinguish them from something that the contributor just made up for the occasion.
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