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
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org>
> Date: May 25, 2017 at 6:22:57 PM CDT
> To: Development and Operations engineers <engineering(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Wikitech-l <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>, Operations Engineers <ops(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] MW 1.30-wmf.2 deployed to and reverted from group2 (all wikipedias) today
> Reply-To: Wikimedia developers <wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
>
> Investigation is still underway, but as of the end of Thursday wmf.2 is
> only on group0 (testwikis) and group1 (non-'pedias). See the
> tracking/blocker task at:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T163512
>
> The issue that caused the revert is being tracked at:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T166345
>
> You can track the status of the wmf.2 rollout via that tracking task
> above or by watching https://tools.wmflabs.org/versions/
>
> Greg
>
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