User:SweetNightmares
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| “ | Even if all the formatters quit the project tomorrow, Wikipedia would still be immensely valuable. For the most part, people read Wikipedia because it has the information they need, not because it has a consistent look. It certainly wouldn’t be as nice without one, but the people who (like me) care about such things would probably step up to take the place of those who had left. The formatters aid the contributors, not the other way around.
Wales is right about one thing, though. This fact does have enormous policy implications. If Wikipedia is written by occasional contributors, then growing it requires making it easier and more rewarding to contribute occasionally. Instead of trying to squeeze more work out of those who spend their life on Wikipedia, we need to broaden the base of those who contribute just a little bit. Unfortunately, precisely because such people are only occasional contributors, their opinions aren’t heard by the current Wikipedia process. They don’t get involved in policy debates, they don’t go to meetups, and they don’t hang out with Jimbo Wales. |
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| — Aaron Swartz, Who Writes Wikipedia? | ||
Recommended reading
The following essays, while extremely pessimistic, offer valuable insight into Wikipedia and its ills.
- Nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words) by Sue Gardner
- There is a cabal
- Why Wikipedia is not so great (vs. its opposite)
- Discovered reasons given for leaving Wikipedia
- A 2006 interivew with Jimbo Wales in which he denies that Wikipedia is victim to astroturfing, although recent evidence points to the contrary
- A guide to ethically editing Wikipedia for businesses
To do
- Reorganize and revitalize WP:QC
- Clean up/streamline "to-do"
- Create auxiliary features, namely a welcome template
- + Economy, geography, expand history
- Bas-Saint-Laurent
- Improve Red River of the North and translate it into French
- Translate Lennoxville into French
- Translate Chic-Choc Mountains
- Translate the many articles in L'Islet from French
- Complete translation of Montmagny, Quebec
Tasks
Tools
 Articles created or largely translated by SweetNightmares | |
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