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
As you may remember, in 2010 the Wikipedia puzzle logo was updated:
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/2.0>
The localisation and update of logos has always been a volunteer-driven
effort, organised mostly by Casey at the time. Building on his work,[1]
in the last 6 months over 100 Wikipedias had their logo updated,[2] with
the last batch yesterday.
Like the 55 Wiktionaries in December,[3] many of those wikis have never
had a localised before; the others were still using the v1 logo or had
some other breach of the visual guidelines.
Many thanks to all the translators and users checking the new logos, and
to the tireless Odder who drew some 66 of those logos and uploaded even
more in the process of doing so. Again, you can still help by adding
translations and reporting errors on the coordination page.[1]
Nemo
[1] <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Cbrown1023/Logos>
[2] 108 if I'm counting correctly.
<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=40285,44974,46589,48397>
[3]
<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/translators-l/2012-December/002193.html>