Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia

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Who (Really) Writes Wikipedia

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday September 5, 2006 @12:27AM from the wisdom-of-wikis dept.

Nico ? La ! writes "Aaron Swartz questions Jimbo Wales' (Wikimedia's founder) belief and evangelized truth that only around 500 people are the most important contributors to Wikipedia. Whereas the truth is that they probably are the people who do the most editing. From the post: 'For example, the largest portion of the Anaconda article was written by a user who only made 2 edits to it (and only 100 on the entire site). By contrast, the largest number of edits were made by a user who appears to have contributed no text to the final article (the edits were all deleting things and moving things around).'" Which ultimately means that Wikipedia in some ways much more closely mimics a real encyclopedia, with many contributors writing the bulk of the content, but a small group massaging that text to insure standards compliance with the overall work. Interesting thing there and worth your time, although the super-computer thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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First post by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

FUCK YOU!
1. Re:First post by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:31 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Shit, I wanted to do the first post myself, but you did it, asshole.
Be bold! by anshil · 2006-09-05 00:35 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"although the super-computer thing doesn't make a lot of sense to me."

Be bold!

Just hit the edit button yourself! (instead of complaining at /.)

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1. Re:Be bold! by anshil · 2006-09-05 01:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Real bad, bad, bad moderation, how can something be "overrated" that has not even been rated before?
  
  If you don't like the content, then say so.
  
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2. Re:Be bold! by anshil · 2006-09-05 01:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Common give me you last remaining moderations points also! (Hint: Overrated)
  
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Sweet jesus by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

ENSURE. Not insure.

<napoleon_dynamite>GOD! IDIOTS!</napoleon_dynamite>
as the Wiki turns.... by LoTechDave · 2006-09-05 00:44 · Score: -1, Offtopic

look under "get a life" in wikipedia
Re:Anaconda by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:46 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I want these mothafuckin snakes off my mothafuckin plane!
Re:More Statistics & What I Expect by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

First, it's Procol Harum. Your spelling shows you're either a pedant or a beotian.
Second, they're well-known. The young generations being totally incult and devoid of taste makes them irrelevant.
Third, if you never slow danced on a Whiter Shade of Pale, you're not worth being called human.
Re:Much like Digg by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 00:51 · Score: -1, Offtopic

And about the same percentage of /. headlines.
Re:Define: Important by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 01:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

OP: "ensure", not "insure"
Re:5% by Anonymous Coward · 2006-09-05 01:12 · Score: 0, Offtopic

And Roland Piquepaille cuts and pastes the other 95%.
Re:5% by daniil · 2006-09-05 01:28 · Score: 0, Offtopic

The 5% are the ones that are unaware that their "b0xen" have been hijacked and are being used for crapflooding /.

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Re:Define: Important by Sub+Zero+992 · 2006-09-05 01:29 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Idiot :P
Who rattled your cage?

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Re:Massaging the Text by tehcyder · 2006-09-05 02:24 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I assure you that insure can be used interchangeably with ensure.
Not in the UK, at least.
Here, you insure your car, assure your life, and ensure that you pay the premiums on time.

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Re:More Statistics & What I Expect by ErroneousBee · 2006-09-05 02:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I'm assuming that there is some die hard nutjob out there with two children named Procul and Harum that filled in most of the information in that page.
We had a third child.
We considered calling her "Keith" after the lead singer, but considered that was innapropriate and so named her "BJ" in honour of the drummer.

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