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Wikipedia Rolls Out Mobile Editing For All Users
An anonymous reader writes "Wikipedia today announced it has launched support for editing content on your mobile device. The first version of mobile editing, which requires a Wikimedia account, is available right now. 'For our first release, our primary goal was to create a fast, intuitive editing experience for new users and experienced editors alike, while still sticking with markup editing for now,' Wikimedia's Juliusz Gonera explained. 'We started simple so we could observe our users' needs and expectations.'"
Their markup language is quite simple to understand, and its existence provides a useful desire and intelligence floor on people editing pages. If people can't even be bothered to read how it works, that's probably well correlated with crap contributions. I'm sure it's not a perfect correlation, but it's a lot better than nothing, and prevents it from descending to AOL levels of stupidity. For whatever problems it has - and it has many, including internal political ones - wikipedia is a pretty damn good resource. Best not to mess too much with the formula on the aspects of it which do more or less work well. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
I had an edit revoked when I removed some info about the small town I live in. It said it was devastated by fire in the 1927, but there was never a fire of any kind. I was told I need a citation. A citation of something that didn't happen, nice..
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Now wikipedia will be loaded with broken tags, autocorrect problems, and misplaced text. Mobile devices suck for editing text.
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Considering trying to shillpedia is a waste of time to begin with, i cant recall a single edit on any one article i ever attempt to add to or correct mistake that wasnt reverted in 12 seconds by one guy who has claimed sole ownership of every article about a particular subject.
Actually I've found the English Wikipedia to be much more relaxed than my native Finnish edition, on which the snipers seem to be always on watch. Don't know how it is in other languages.
But you are right that the general atmosphere of Wikipedia gives a bit of a unwelcoming taste to some random guy trying contributing for the first time.
A lot of people complain on Slashdot about perceived violations of the WP:OWN policy on Wikipedia. Yet I rarely if ever see links to diffs of edits that got reverted by an editor accused of exerting undue control over an article's text.
I, for one, welcome our new drunken mobile-editing overlords.