contribute more to wikipedia

It’s a great site.

I have been doing very small changes in the past few days, like pointing links to the good articles (like The Swan Princess (film) instead of The Swan Princess alone). I also added two articles about voice actress from Québec and a picture of concept art for an upcoming Disney movie. I guess it’s a start… I just never know whether to write articles for the English or French part of Wikipedia. What a dilemma! :P

the place gets worse every day. leave now while you have less invested.

It’s no longer worth trying to help Wikipedia. The “management” is stuck in this “authoritarian utopia” model, where they have the one and only vision to move the encyclopedia forward . . . but they’re spending WAY too much time arguing about things like “what constitutes original research” and “what’s the best way to delete a category that we don’t want to maintain”.

It’s coming apart at the seams; so I’ll do all my future contributing to wikis at Centiare.com.

Ok, I kinda tried this just now.
I’m stuck on how to add pictures :|

After I wrote the article for Wikipedia, some of the additions to it were of a pretty poor standard.

I didn’t want to delete them because it seemed unfair on the contributors.

But the article got tagged as containing ‘weasel words’!

I wrote most of the entry on the Legal Practice Course (what can I say, I’m just a rock and roll guy), but it’s maddening when people write stuff thats not true on top of your writing.

I’m thinking about which article to do next; maybe my home town with pictures.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_Practice_Course

Wikipedia is really special. There’s information on EVERYTHING. Good goal.

I’m up to four thousand or so edits. The politics of the place still really piss me off. Right now, I’m working on my book, so very little work gets done on my behalf at the wikipedia. I still use it extensively for research, and when I am researching, I correct errors I find or add articles which they don’t have.

So while I’m not at the frenetic pace I once was (about a thousand edits in one month), I am still contributing.

And I find it rewarding. Most people I meet don’t know the meaning of the word “pyrophoricity,” but there’s an article on wikipedia about it. It’s an incredibly valuable resource, and it only keeps getting better.

Contributing to the wikipedia is so hard when the place is embroiled in the political machinations of seen or unseen cabals. I’ve made a lot of contributions since I originated this goal, but I am not quite satisifed yet with the corpus of things I’ve contributed. I’d like to be able to look at my edit history and not see anything that I would look at and say “well, that was a useless contribution…”