[Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

Anthony wikimail at inbox.org
Tue May 4 14:09:46 UTC 2010


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Kul Takanao Wadhwa <kwadhwa at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> James Alexander wrote:
> > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project.
>  It's
> >> usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the
> >> internet than real-life - some positive externalities may arise.
> >>
> >> I agree, I've actually met at least 3 people "out in the world" who
> >>
> > admitted to starting off vandalizing the Wikipedia and then ended up
> editing
> > it legitimately. Two of them do very random wikiGnome stuff when they see
> it
> > and the third has actually done quite a few articles now.
> >
> >
> That's very interesting to know. Do you have any idea what made them
> convert from being vandals to positive contributors?
>

Reading Template:Test, of course.



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