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!
The Months of African Cinema Global Edit-a-thon was concluded on 30 November 2020,[1] and we want to send a big thank you to all the participants who helped make it a success! Over 3,200 articles were created across 19 language Wikipedias, surpassing all expectations and placing the contest firmly as one of the most successful article-writing contests on Wikipedia.
We also want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all those who volunteered to be part of the jury team. It was very complicated trying to assess the quality of 3,000 articles, but we did it! All our winners have now been announced and you can check the complete list here.<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…>[2]
Thank you so much for being part of this global event! Thank you for helping to fix African content gaps on Wikipedia! We hope to see more of your participation in future AfroCine events and activities. Please remember to sign up on the main WikiProject participants’ page,[3] and on the meta page[4] to get updated with these activities.
Thanks,
Sam,
On behalf of The AfroCine Project team.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Months_of_Afri…
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AfroCine/Participants
4. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_AfroCine_Project
Dear Wikimedia Community Members,
The Core Organizing Team (COT) [1] is excited to take on organizing our
first-ever virtual Wikimania! Many thanks to the Wikimania Steering
Committee [2] for entrusting us with the task of bringing our community
together and celebrating the movement.
This year marks Wikipedia’s 20th birthday [3], and the theme for the 2021
Wikimania will be centered around this fantastic milestone. We want to make
this edition a celebration of all the humans that have made achieving it
possible.
As the COT, we find it important to keep you informed and involved
throughout the process of organizing Wikimania 2021 and we would appreciate
your great support.
We will be reaching out to the wider community for your input on various
aspects to inform some of our decisions. To begin with, we would like to
ask for your opinion on a few things;
-
Entertainment
What kind of entertainment options would you ideally like to see during a
virtual Wikimania? Do you have any ideas for singers, dancers, or any
suggestions for other types of entertainment?
-
Swag
How would you propose we go about swag for a virtual Wikimania? What are
some good ideas for virtual conference swag?
Let us know your thoughts using this LimeSurvey link
<https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/479123?lang=en> [4]. The survey will
collect anonymous responses and will remain open until the 5th of May 2021.
We are looking forward to hearing your ideas and suggestions, and will be
sharing more with you as we move towards making a decision on these aspects
for our virtual Wikimania!
Thanks and speak soon!
*Winnie Kabintie (User: Ms_Kabintie), on behalf of the Wikimania 2021 Core
Organizing Team *
[1]
https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2021:Save_the_date_and_the_Core_Organi…
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee
[3] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20
[4] https://survey.wikimedia.it/index.php/479123/lang/en/newtest/Y
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> > > For more information, kindly have a look at the event page:
> '*"Wikipedia
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> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
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> > >
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> > > If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
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> > > > As you all know this year we are going to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th
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> > > *"Wikipedia
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> > >
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > > >"*
> > > >
> > > > We have received a good number of creative works already and are
> > looking
> > > > for more. To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit
> > > here
> > > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday
> >
> > > >
> > > > For more information, kindly have a look at the event page:
> > '*"Wikipedia
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> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > > >"*
> > > >
> > > > Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I
> > and
> > > > my family feels"*.
> > > >
> > > > If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free
> to
> > > > share the news and ask others to participate.
> > > >
> > > > Namaste,
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 1:15 PM Rajeeb <marajozkee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> >
> > We write to thank you for your immense contribution so far to our event
> > titled *"Wikipedia 20th celebration the way I & my family feel
> > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > >"*
> >
> >
> >
> > To give more time to participate we have decided to extend the contest
> for
> > four additional weeks and continue the celebration.
> >
> >
> > So the new date is now 14th February 2021.
> >
> >
> > To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit here
> > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
> >
> >
> > For more information, kindly have a look at the event page: '*"Wikipedia
> > 20th celebration the way I & my family feels
> > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > >"*
> >
> >
> > Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I and
> > my family feels"*.
> >
> >
> > If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
> > share the news and ask others to participate.
> >
> >
> >
> > Namaste,
> >
> > Rajeeb.
> >
> > (U:Marajozkee)
> >
> > On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 at 10:06, Rajeeb <marajozkee(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Hope this email finds you well.
> > >
> > > As you all know this year we are going to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th
> > > birthday on 15th January 2021, and it's another 5 days to go.
> > >
> > > I like to invite all of you to participate in the event titled
> > *"Wikipedia
> > > 20th celebration the way I & my family feel
> > > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > >"*
> > >
> > > We have received a good number of creative works already and are
> looking
> > > for more. To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit
> > here
> > > <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
> > >
> > > For more information, kindly have a look at the event page:
> '*"Wikipedia
> > > 20th celebration the way I & my family feels
> > > <
> >
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…
> > >"*
> > >
> > > Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I
> and
> > > my family feels"*.
> > >
> > > If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
> > > share the news and ask others to participate.
> > >
> > > Namaste,
> > >
> > > Rajeeb.
> > >
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Greetings,
Hope this email finds you well.
As you all know this year we are going to celebrate Wikipedia's 20th
birthday on 15th January 2021, and it's another 5 days to go.
I like to invite all of you to participate in the event titled *"Wikipedia
20th celebration the way I & my family feel
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>"*
We have received a good number of creative works already and are looking
for more. To know about already submitted creative work, kindly visit here
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_20th_birthday>
For more information, kindly have a look at the event page: '*"Wikipedia
20th celebration the way I & my family feels
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_20th_celebration_the_way_I_%26_my…>"*
Let's all be creative and celebrate Wikipedia20 birthday, *"the way I and
my family feels"*.
If you are interested to contribute please participate. Do feel free to
share the news and ask others to participate.
Namaste,
Rajeeb.
(U:Marajozkee)