As a recent contributor to Wikipedia, I'd like to give you some feedbacks. I edited a few pages, some of them about Mathematics or Science (my username is Lerichard). In a very short time most of my contributions disappeared, removed by users with privileges, or users that were very active on wikipedia. However I contributed a few pages about comics that stayed. Someone claimed we reached the death of Wikipedia. I think that's exagerated and provocative, but there could be a dangerous shift. My impression is that many popular articles are not made of the best contributions, rather they are made by people who are willing to spend a lot of time on wikipedia, and contribute a lot, editing and removing others contributions, knowing exactly what are the rules, making the rules and so on. It makes less room for the ones who are not willing to spend hours each day on wikipedia, but would be able to contribute a bit sometimes. But when I see my contributions being removed shortly after, I just do not want to contribute anymore, just use it. This is not bad per se, but it makes things indeed slightly less democratic, and creates a difference between those who are wikipedians, and casual users. Rather than restricting editing of pages, I would rather restrict the number of contributions that an individual can do. That would be much more democratic. Rich
At 03:34 PM 5/26/2006, le Richard wrote:
As a recent contributor to Wikipedia, I'd like to give you some feedbacks. ... My impression is that many popular articles are not made of the best contributions, rather they are made by people who are willing to spend a lot of time on wikipedia, and contribute a lot, editing and removing others contributions, knowing exactly what are the rules, making the rules and so on.
It's certainly true that the rules are made by those people that spend the most time on Wikipedia. If you have a job or a family, it's quite tough to keep up with all the students and retired people.
On the other hand... the people with a surplus of spare time are also the same ones who contribute a lot of good work, so one can't really complain.
I guess you already found the solution to the problem: stick to obscure articles, and leave the big, popular topics to the obsessive editors. That's what I do.
Chl
On 5/26/06, le Richard lerichard@free.fr wrote:
As a recent contributor to Wikipedia, I'd like to give you some feedbacks. I edited a few pages, some of them about Mathematics or Science (my username is Lerichard). In a very short time most of my contributions disappeared, removed by users with privileges, or users that were very active on wikipedia. However I contributed a few pages about comics that stayed. Someone claimed we reached the death of Wikipedia. I think that's exagerated and provocative, but there could be a dangerous shift. My impression is that many popular articles are not made of the best contributions, rather they are made by people who are willing to spend a lot of time on wikipedia, and contribute a lot, editing and removing others contributions, knowing exactly what are the rules, making the rules and so on. It makes less room for the ones who are not willing to spend hours each day on wikipedia, but would be able to contribute a bit sometimes. But when I see my contributions being removed shortly after, I just do not want to contribute anymore, just use it. This is not bad per se, but it makes things indeed slightly less democratic, and creates a difference between those who are wikipedians, and casual users. Rather than restricting editing of pages, I would rather restrict the number of contributions that an individual can do. That would be much more democratic. Rich
Are you sure about the user name? I can't find any contribs from a [[User:Lerichard]] or [[User:Le_Richard]] or other variant. Without knowing what the actual edits are, it's difficult to come to figure out what's going on.
As a mathematician I'm particularly interested on his contributions to see why (if they were correct) were removed and think of possible reasons, but again, no user with that username
On 5/28/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
As a recent contributor to Wikipedia, I'd like to give you some
feedbacks.
I edited a few pages, some of them about Mathematics or Science (my username is Lerichard).
I can't find User:Lerichard.
Charles
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I believe that is because you are looking at the wrong Wikipedia.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilisateur:Lerichard
Perhaps?
A. Nony Mouse
On 5/28/06, Drini drini wpdrini@gmail.com wrote:
As a mathematician I'm particularly interested on his contributions to see why (if they were correct) were removed and think of possible reasons, but again, no user with that username
On 5/28/06, charles matthews charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
As a recent contributor to Wikipedia, I'd like to give you some
feedbacks.
I edited a few pages, some of them about Mathematics or Science (my username is Lerichard).
I can't find User:Lerichard.
Charles
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On May 28, 2006, at 1:26 PM, A. Nony Mouse wrote:
Good thought, but this account, at least, doesn't seem to be the account of the Original Poster. It's first edit was June 2005, and most recent was November 2005. And, although I don't speak French, it doesn't look like there are any math-related articles on the contribs list.
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