I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.
I am a self proclaimed wiki-phile, I always donated when I could. It was kind of like going to the library without the fresh book smell.
Have you actually tried to edit something on wikipedia? It’s run by bots that will remove your edits. Example: in article about Argentina there was a bullshit paragraph about rio de la plata being named so by “english sailors who thought it looked like plate”, that’s 1) regarded and incorrect 2) no sources to the claim was given, I’ve tried to remove it multiple times, it stayed there, even worse, I think it migrated to other languages as well. That’s just my last interaction with wikipedia, when understading that people aren’t welcome came. It’s mostly automated, there is no way to make these people remove bogus shit if another clown already placed it there. Your efforts would be ridiculed, you will be banned for not following one of billion obscure rules. It really is captured.
I don’t care about Musk and had no idea about his stance on wikipedia. He is a dumb cunt.
So your complaint is that it’s really difficult for unknown users, unfamiliar with the rules and conventions, to make edits to wikipedia? Gotta be honest that sounds… like not exactly the worst situation for it to be in.
You can be as familiar with the rules as you want as long as you haven’t done specific song and dance that specific editor likes to see before editing you aren’t allowed to do it. They are vicious and will delete an article itself if you will try and raise a fuss, under a pretence of topic not being notable. Not a complaint, there is systemic issue in wikipedia and it’s getting worse, while wikipedia acknowledges that it exists they do nothing about it.
Have you seen an ad about wikipedia needing new contributors even once?