[Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

[Anirudh Bhati]

Speaking from my own experience, I started off as a "vandal" got a couple of
test warnings and then I started contributing meaningfully.  As long as the
vandalism is not subtle and experimenting users are not labelled as
"vandals" as such, it can be easily managed by bots and users.

ZOMG LET''S VANDALIZE WIKIPEDIA!!!11!! will inevitably get more attention
than "Let us write an article day!".

Yours sincerely,

Anirudh Singh Bhati
Student of Law, Gujarat National Law University,
Gandhinagar, India.

Handphone: +919328712208
Skype: anirudhsbh

Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn’t deserve to be. —L. Neil
Smith.


On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:

> 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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