This is very true and insightful. If you can't find articles that need
work, try reading the damn encyclopaedia. I'm constantly shocked by missing
articles - major scientists, yes and all kinds of other topics. There are
maps to be drawn, pictures to be taken, citations to look up (many of which
are easy to find), redlinks to be filled in, unwikified articles ...
this sandbox of my lists
about 40 musicians I intend to write articles for, for instance. If you
don't know where work needs to be done, try reading.
That said, editors who purge all the redlinks don't help the situation.
Next time you write an article, include at least one redlink.
WilyD
On 8/29/07, K P <kpbotany(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Every day on Wikipedia I come across shockingly major scientists who
don't have articles, while every Pokeman card in the universe is
well-catalogued. Species? We don't even have decent articles on the
two dozen or so model organisms that each have hundreds of major
citations. Today I found a nobel prize winner in physics whose topic
we don't even appear to have an article on.
KP
On 8/28/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>From: Aude <audevivere(a)gmail.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] drama and incivility
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:06:39 -0400
>
>Some messages that come through this mailing list, such as the recent
NY
>Times article on BLP issues, are good to
receive. I like being
informed
>about such matters relevant to Wikipedia.
Others like all "Go away,
you
>trolling fuckwit." have no place on the
mailing list. Am I the only
one
>here annoyed with such messages? Why
can't we be more cordial and
polite
>towards one another? It's gotten to the
point where I may unsubscribe.
>
>The drama here, along with AN/I and other places is souring my opinion
>about
>contributing to Wikipedia. Why bother anymore? I still like the
ideals
>behind the project and wish to continue, but
would really like it if we
can
>please tone down the drama and be more civil
and cordial towards one
>another? If people can't control themselves, then maybe this list
could
>use
>moderation. Though if the moderator is engaging such language, that's
not
good.
--
Aude
You'll never get rid of enwiki drama, certainly not on enwiki mailing
lists.
Simple reason? Most people don't have anything to write any more, so
they
start fighting instead. Seeing [[Africa]] as a
redlink and writing
"Africa
is a continent" is fun, but that doesn't
happen anymore (and "Africa is
a
big continent" is no longer an FA). So,
people turn to drama as an
alternative, because conflict is fun as well. A shame, but in this
respect
enwiki has become the victim of its own succcess.
Antandrus talks about
this
better than I can.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antandrus/observations_on_Wikipedia_behav…
Particularly numbers 19 and 20.
C More schi
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