On 20 April 2012 12:48, Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
It's partly that. They had a question from a listener asking how Wikipedia gets up to date so quickly. The listener watched the Grand National and wondered how old the winning jockey was, got to his Wikipedia page and within two minutes of the end of the race his page was updated with a mention of his victory.
I told 'em the actual answer was "a volunteer editor was waiting on the page to be the first to update it, just waiting to press the button."
There's scope to speak about the Wikipedia in Ireland too, could be a good chance to encourage more people to get involved.
ga.wikipedia.org has had 86 people do anything at all this month. There's lots of room there.
- d.