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Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors
mikejuk writes "Wikipedia has a cunning plan to make wikipedians nicer to each other — its all about WikiLove. They can click on the Love button to make each other feel good about contributing anything from an article to an edit. The idea is that this will encourage newbie editors to stay and contribute rather than slink away into the rest of the web because their contributions get deleted and derided. Perhaps all we need for world peace is a big enough love button."
I'm waiting for the snickering to start on pushing people's love button to make them feel good.
Perhaps all we need for world peace is a big enough love button.
That's what SHE said!
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
Then get rid of editors with more than 10 reverts.
Then get rid of editors who create articles that are not relevant.
Then get rid of editors who did not get enough wiki love points.
In the end there will be only one! and we will have to get rid of him too, because nobody read his article.
wikipedia is a social experiment after all, the fact that is happens to be a something like e encyclopedia as weel is a nice side effect.
PS, if you mod as funny, we will have to get rid of you as well ;)
What's wrong with mob mentality on the Internet?
I mean, look at how swimmingly it works in real life. There's Vancouv....err....well, there's Tripoli....errr...wait....no..there's Belfast...no...dammit...there's got to be....ok...how about Lebanon?
Ahh, fuck it. You're right. Mobs suck. ...
As an aside, is it ironic that I linked to a Wikipedia article about the results of mob mentality when we're talking about mob mentality on Wikipedia?
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
The WikiLove campaign has been around for ages, with the goal being simply to encourage friendliness and a positive learning/working environment. Various user scripts have been around for a while, this is just an implicit acceptance of that concept, as the feature will now be built-in instead of an option feature you have to search for.
I live in constant fear of the Coming of the Red Spiders.
Great, now Wikipedos can have an additional method to spray their "love" on 13-year-olds. Just fucking great.
My kingdom for mod points.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
His point is that wikipedia articles should (according to the rules) be owned collectively, rather than by individuals, which is pretty core to the collectivist ideology. Collectivism and communism are closely related.
Yes, but this is a loaded word. It's a little like describing antivirus software as "ethnic cleansing for data".