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
Greetings
My students been asking, why my Wikipedia page(Wolfgang Lucena) isn't done yet ... Can someone help to get it done?
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absolutely
algerians wikimedia Users Group are disposed to help and guide any body aim
to contribute the algerian projects the wikipedia and wiktionary if you are
interested I am willing to help you with these two projects
best
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:16:02 +0200
> From: Zenad Walid <w.zenad(a)gmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> We are a group of Algerians contributors to Wikipedia, we would like to
> create a new Wikipedia portal for the widely local spoken language in north
> Africa "Derija" which is driven from various languages like Arabic, French,
> Amazight, Spanish ... ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Arabic
> and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darija )
>
> The project is not influence by any political motivation, we would like to
> ease the understanding of information for the people who does't speak
> Arabic, French nor English in the region.
>
> It would be interesting to point out that a similar experience has been
> launched in 2008 in Egypt by creating a Wikipedia portal for the Egyptian
> language with is similar to Arabic (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic and
>
> https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D…
> )
>
> the experiment is having a lot of success in Egypt, and we would
> like exactly to copy the Egyptian model but our goal is to reach the
> population of 5 countries "Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and
> Mauritania".
>
> We would like to know if it respects the terms of the Wikifondation, and
> the process to follow to create the portal.
>
> Best regards
>
> Walid Zenad
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:28:42 +0300
> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
> To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> Such a project started already. It's in the "incubator" stage. See
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/arq
>
> Several things need to happen for this project to acquire its own domain,
> probably arq.wikipedia.org , but the most important thing is that this
> project needs to have active writers. The current writing activity is low:
> see
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/arq&wik…
>
> If you write there more, it will be eventually approved.
>
> For more information, see:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Manual
>
>
>
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*Mohammed Bachounda*
Leader Wikimedia Algérie UG
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absolutely
algerians wikimedia Users Group are disposed to help and guide any body aim
to contribute the algerian projects the wikipedia and wiktionary if you are
interested I am willing to help you with these two projects
best
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:16:02 +0200
> From: Zenad Walid <w.zenad(a)gmail.com>
>
> Hello,
>
> We are a group of Algerians contributors to Wikipedia, we would like to
> create a new Wikipedia portal for the widely local spoken language in north
> Africa "Derija" which is driven from various languages like Arabic, French,
> Amazight, Spanish ... ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_Arabic
> and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darija )
>
> The project is not influence by any political motivation, we would like to
> ease the understanding of information for the people who does't speak
> Arabic, French nor English in the region.
>
> It would be interesting to point out that a similar experience has been
> launched in 2008 in Egypt by creating a Wikipedia portal for the Egyptian
> language with is similar to Arabic (see
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Arabic and
>
> https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%8A%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AF%D…
> )
>
> the experiment is having a lot of success in Egypt, and we would
> like exactly to copy the Egyptian model but our goal is to reach the
> population of 5 countries "Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and
> Mauritania".
>
> We would like to know if it respects the terms of the Wikifondation, and
> the process to follow to create the portal.
>
> Best regards
>
> Walid Zenad
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 12:28:42 +0300
> From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il>
> To: Wikipedia mailing list <wikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> Such a project started already. It's in the "incubator" stage. See
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/arq
>
> Several things need to happen for this project to acquire its own domain,
> probably arq.wikipedia.org , but the most important thing is that this
> project needs to have active writers. The current writing activity is low:
> see
>
> https://tools.wmflabs.org/meta/catanalysis/index.php?cat=0&title=Wp/arq&wik…
>
> If you write there more, it will be eventually approved.
>
> For more information, see:
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_proposal_policy
> https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Manual
>
>
>
--
*Mohammed Bachounda*
Leader Wikimedia Algérie UG