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Don't put all your eggs in one Wikipedia

by aashiks on 8/26/2015, 3:01:35 AM with 1 comments
  • by brownbat on 8/26/2015, 5:57:04 AM

    > I recently tried creating a page for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing ... it was soon deleted.

    Sounds typical.

    I used to be a frequent contributor. I started a few stubs that later became large articles, and helped research a few more established articles.

    Felt great.

    Nowadays, though, it's like a gold rush happened, everyone's staked out their territory. You edit a page, you get a lot more pushback. You create a new page, marked for speedy deletion.

    I don't bother editing very often anymore, sometimes I just comment on pages. I guess I'm part of the trend:

    [0] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-char...

    [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm

    [2] http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-dec...