Who here actually contributes to wikipedia articles?

guyincorporated · 2 years

I work on a big hollywood lot, and we all share one IP address (at least as far as wikipedia is concerned). I randomly stumbled across the greatest wikipedia page ever: the global list of all wikipedia edits made from my lot.

Highlights inlude:

There's someone that edits and maintains all things Xanadu. Xanadu the musical, xanadu the movie, xanadu on ice...
There's a lot of updates to the "notable alumni" sections of various highschools and colleges (people adding themselves or updating their titles).
Some dude is obsessed with The College of William and Mary. Like 10+ updates a day to the college or to people who have attended, all doing his or her best to portray the college in as positive a fashion as possible.
Lots of vandalism. The whole lot will get banned from editing for weeks at a time.
Lots of updates to personal pages, usually deleting the "controvercy" sections.

Starswarm · 2 years

I will often make corrections to Wikipedia articles, spelling and grammar usually, only to have them reverted by bots trying to protect the sanctity of the article from my grubby little hands.

I'm not bitter.

miserlou · 2 years

Over 2000 contributions! Almost entirely troll free!

See my contributions here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Miserlou

AbouBenAdhem · 2 years

I used to contribute fairly heavily when Wikipedia was just getting started; but for the last few years my wikipedia time and reddit time have been inversely proportional.

exscape · 2 years

Pretty much nothing but spelling and grammar edits (or broken wiki code). I've created one article, and a bunch of redirects, but that's about it.

deflective · 2 years

i've written an upgraded wikipedia pronunciation template. my version allows you to mouseover individual ipa characters and see what they sound like. eg: coelacanth, hold the mouse over the pronunciation (next to the speaker icon).

converting wikipedia articles to use a new template has been a tedious, manual process. in theory, since it has been stable for a while now, so i could start running a bot to convert them but i haven't really looked into it.

if it interests you, there is a greasemonkey script that will give you a button on edit pages to automatically convert old pronunciation templates into the new one. any feedback would be appreciated.

irelayer · 2 years

Back when Wikipedia was young, there was a lot more leeway. Over time, a system has been built up wherein people have "territories" (areas or specific articles they monitor) and if you infringe on those, they'll sometimes fight tooth and nail to keep your stuff out. It is a consequence of maturity, and a positive one I think. The system isn't perfect but those little nitpicks and interactions between editors usually results in good content. Whereas before I'd attempt to actually contribute information, now I do microedits to spelling and grammar, tag stuff, remove obvious vandalism, and in particularly egregious cases will even proof and copyedit an entire section.

It is a whole culture, and like anything else if you aren't an active participant, you aren't part of the community. ANYONE can edit it, sure, but there is a built up set of conventions and standards you need to be aware of first, or else your stuff will typically be overwritten.

In other words, its not something you can just contribute to willy nilly. You have to either go full force for a month or two and become part of the community, or do the microedit route. There is a whole "silent majority" aspect to Wikipedia where people will contribute subtle corrections, and that's a huge plus. It frees up the heavy contributors to do what they do best, while leaving the mundane stuff to people who don't have the time or energy to be heavily involved.

frogtopus · 2 years

A girl I went to high school with had a dad who used to be a football player. I talked to her once about him and tried to find out more about him. For a few months after that his Wikipedia page (truthfully) stated that "he likes to wear berets."

mipadi · 2 years

I used to be a heavy Wikipedia editor. Sometimes, I spent hours a day editing Wikipedia. I finally kicked the habit a few years back, and now I only make very minor, infrequent edits (fixing grammar and punctuation, improving formatting, that sort of thing). Mostly I quit because I felt like I was spending too much time doing it, but I also quit because of the politics. Too many of my articles were deleted or "merged" (that is, redirected to a larger article without adding any of the content from my stub); some weren't worth keeping around (I created a lot of stupid Star Wars articles) but some were well-written and well-researched -- they just didn't meet notability guidelines (supposedly) or whatever. Plus I got tired of all the drama with deletionists vs. inclusionists, etc., and decided to move on with my life.

oalsaker · 2 years

I translated one from german once about Max Planck's professor, Philipp von Jolly. You can see it has been through several revisions since. It's still alive though, which makes me a little happy.

slippage · 2 years

I've started a few articles, and made some major contributions to a few others (the "informal description" section, for instance, in the article on the lambda-calculus). I also correct spelling and grammar mistakes if I spot them whilst reading.

kiplinght · 2 years

I've tried to contribute to Wikipedia, but like Digg, unless you have a circlejerk of friends following you, you're unimportant enough to take up a fraction of the space on Wikipedia.

I'll go and fix typos sometimes, but that's it

Leav · 2 years

I started the article on steve prefontaine when I was ~16.

Then

Now

bonusonus · 2 years

I wrote a bunch of the article on [[Pesticide]] (ok, I stopped myself halfway through that to put in a real link, but then decided to leave it). I mostly sourced it from the textbook for my AP Environmental Science class, and included it as a reference in the article. Basically I re-wrote most of what the textbook said in my own words. A few years later I came back to find that the majority of what I'd written had [citation needed] marks all over it. For a website that purports to hold the sum of all human knowledge, most of its editors are loath to go beyond the internet for actual research, and things like this tend to discourage it.

Pardner · 2 years

I tried once. I added a lot of useful information regarding my town and have two or three citations. The changes were instantly reverted. I tried for an hour to get them to stick, but I couldn't do it so I eventually gave up.

notBrit · 2 years

I'm a pretty avid editor. I've earned a bunch of "barnstars" (which are retarded) and have had my pages graded "A" and "B" (which is actually pretty col).

However, it gets tiring having to justify my edits to people on the talk pages. This gets especially bad when you add facts or remove falsehoods from pages about subjects that inspire a lot of strong feelings. Try editing any religious page for accuracy, and you'll set off a firestorm among both theists and anti-theists. Once I removed a completely invented story from a page about a religious leader (a transparent attempt to make him look bad), and I was met with a one man religious crusade against that particular denomination.

Also, I wrote almost the entire Horcrux article as it exists today, though I haven't touched it in years. Whatever that's worth.

jllunsfo · 2 years

I edited once on a Roman history article on some political scandal when someone cited Livy, who had been dead for like 100 years at the time of the incident.

keito · 2 years

No, but since reading this I have signed up and intend to contribute more from here on in.

slippage · 2 years

Relevant post made by nulserata about breaking the rules I did not know any of this and it is good to have as reference for when people start trying to hack and slash your work and you need to defend it. Might be time to start improving wikipedia slippage style.

evilnight · 2 years

I wrote one a few years back that is doing pretty well.

Little Theatre

This was well before the whole psycho-deletion-edit-NPOV-citation fever took over. I was idly looking up a local theater to find out more about it and found a very shoddy stub page that was in the middle of a VFD.

I'm a bit curious why someone added this rather irrelevant commentary...

Some films that play at this theatre become popular enough to play in theaters nation wide. Examples include My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, The English Patient, Chicago, The Hours, March of the Penguins, Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Many films that have been shown at the theater have been later nominated for (and sometimes won) Oscar, with some "Best Picture" winners in the past. Some of those films can end up being box office successes.

Other than that it's almost exactly as I left it 5 years ago. Someone has added a picture, and a few of the wikiprojects have picked up on it but not made any big changes yet.

slippage · 2 years

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chrisbooth12 · 2 years

If by work on you mean i make Luke Skywalker the only known gay Jedi than yes I do work on it.

isharq · 2 years

I've started about half a dozen articles, and I've done about 400-500 edits or so... But I don't really feel that passionate about it. The lack of credit for your hard work bothers me a little.

ravedave · 2 years

I used to contribute heavily, I was one of the main authors in getting [[Minnesota]] to featured status, but I've been spending most of my time on reddit, playing tf2 and writing android apps for the past year.

[deleted] · 2 years

I wrote a few articles (less than 10), some improvements, but mostly small corrections. A lot of interwiki stuff (there was a semi-automatic tool) a few years ago. I'm a WikiGnome.

bioskope · 2 years

I edit information like numbers, scores etc. in sports related articles, add bits of information to already existing topics, as and when I run across news articles touching on said topics. Usually that editing is confined to obscure topics, as the community is prompt at updating information for the more relevant ones, and also because there's a higher chance of my looking up articles on obscure topics. I'm not a power editor by any stretch of the imagination though. I don't get involved in arguments over neutrality or endorsement of content, in the talk pages. If someone feels the need to override or fine tune my edit, I don't give a rats ass. It doesn't discourage me. I still continue to do it, because I can. I don't create pages from scratch either, as my writing skills are subpar and I virtually don't proof-read anything I write.

CritterM72800 · 2 years

I (effectively) maintain a page on a relatively obscure programming language. All the major edits are mine.

I do a fair amount of technical writing (white papers, how-tos, cheat sheets, man pages, etc...) and the process of writing a wikipedia page was (to me) quite unique and different than other writing.

amishius · 2 years

I contributed pretty heavily to Wikiversity for a long while then realized the whole thing was stupid.

rossberry · 2 years

I tried a few times but there are a few people who devote themselves to disallowing any changes to be made on Wikipedia. I tried to add A Clockwork Orange to the nihilism in film section but my post was repeatedly deleted even though I included legitimate citations.

EDIT: Apparently after I left people eventually caught on that the guy was a problem

JGoody · 2 years

I've done a decent amount of work adding citations where needed in the past, often just a matter of fishing up some old news article and linking appropriately.

I was also extremely involved with WikiNews back when it was first getting started, but then I got busy with life and it got too big for me to really keep up with.

paulrpotts · 2 years

I have written much of the material on the English horror writer William Hope Hodgson and his works (although others have contributed) and some guitars and guitar makers. There's more I'd like to do with the Hodgson material but I have kind of wandered away from it; I don't like how heated the arguments can get on talk pages.

I'm slightly embarrassed to admit I've done some editing on guides to episodes of Doctor Who, mostly in reducing the word count in plot summaries.

The creation of "summaries" is kind of an odd gray area that could be counted as "original research."

I think I've done some more here and there but I've probably forgotten some of what I've done... guess I should sign in (which I haven't done for a year or more) and see what it says.

Oh... here's a photo I took for the article on hard disk drives... these were all on a bookshelf at my old apartment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SixHardDriveFormFactors.jpg

Update: just logged in for the first time in some time... having stuff deleted that I put a lot of time into can be a little frustrating...

HardwareLust · 2 years

I used to, but I gave up awhile back after being beaten over the head by people who have nothing better to do with their lives but sit around and wait for someone to edit something so they can revert it or delete it. Wikipedia is infected with so many petty tirant "editors" and deletionists that I basically find the whole exercise of editing to be pointless and a waste of time.

TheAceOfHearts · 2 years

I'm too stupid to edit Wikipedia. There's just too many rules and regulations for me to keep up. And sometimes when I feel like I could add something, I hesitate because I'm afraid I'll do it wrong. I tried reading the guidelines but it's just so overwhelming, I have a lot of respect for people that actually follow through with it.

One thing I'd like to fix is my grandfather's Wikipedia, he was a very influential person in my country, yet he doesn't even have an article in the Spanish version (surprisingly, the English version does have information on him).

pengo · 2 years

I've started a few articles and stubs, often in the hope someone else will improve them. Sometimes they do (e.g. Neglected diseases, Superseded scientific theories), sometimes they just stay stubs (e.g. Monkey drive, Pimelea spicata).

Also I created and implemented that conservation status diagram (the circles) you see on, for example, Iberian Ribbed Newt.

Currently project is to turn all the red-link plant species on Rainforest in Victoria (Australia) into at least stubs. (Any help appreciated)

edit: to answer the poster's questions: Biggest fear (or annoyance) is having your article or edits deleted (eg I started "List of minority-opinion scientific theories" which was deleted for fairly flimsy reasons.

requirements to edit wikipedia: you need to know English or one of the other 100+ languages wikipedia is in. You dont need subject knowledge—wikipedia is a synthesis of published knowledge, so you should be drawing on what's out there and give it an "encyclopedic" tone. Also helps to be cool headed, as trivial arguments arent rare.

Cilpot · 2 years

I created the reddit page! For the Norwegian Wikipedia that is.

cojoco · 2 years

Many people here are talking about not getting enough credit for helping edit Wikipedia, but to me this seems like a very selfish attitude.

I have gained a lot of good use out of WP, I probably look up articles every single day.

The 1,600-or-so edits I have done in return are a drop in the ocean compared to the value I have obtained from it.

plbogen · 2 years

I do. I did most of the research on this one.

I also work on a couple that technically I may be too close to the subjects for. :-P

Nibaritone · 2 years

I got yelled at the first time I tried to fix a sentence. So now I know better than to try to ingratiate myself to the Wikipedia royalty.

It fills my heart with sadness that I cannot add my own edits and articles.

infinitysnake · 2 years

I used to contribute a lot, but the politics of Wikipedia got to be pretty onerous, and I pretty much quit after a spiteful new admin permaposted my name and address during a dispute (his contetion: editing without logging in was "sockpuppeting." He lost the fight, but my address was archived, and later used by a stalker. :(

I still enjoy reading the wiki, and do make frequent style/grammar corrections, but the days of day-long article sessions are definitely over for me.

Apple_Mash · 2 years

Every single time I have ever tried to edit wikipedia (to fix mistakes in articles) my changes have been deleted and my IP was banned.

TheBatmanToMyBruce · 2 years

I added the Controversy section to this article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_S._Mills_High_School

It gets deleted every few months, presumably by someone at the school. I keep it in my bookmarks bar, so I'll remember to check it occasionally. It's my little personal one-man stand against censorship.

pippy · 2 years

Created page on favorite artist.

It got deleted.

Created it again.

It got deleted.

A known wiki member created it, the same as my first, it got kept. Gave up on editing wikipedia.

It's worse than circle jerk. And there's massive amounts of errors in it.

LeonHRodriguez · 2 years

I have edited two pages: Seth Rogen's and the film 'Insomnia' starring Al Pacino

Both were detail corrections

toastspork · 2 years

About 3 or 4 times a year, usually additions or corrections, and often something esoteric like adding something that was missing from a band's discography. No username, just my IP address.

zerbey · 2 years

Not as much as I used to, due to lack of time. I've had a number of articles featured in the past though.

dggenuine · 2 years

I make minor edits, add links. I too am tired of fighting with the editors who have little mini-fiefdoms and nothing but time on their hands.

ontarian · 2 years

I have started several articles and made substantial corrections and improvements to articles on biochemistry and biology.

Stu8912 · 2 years

I've written several articles & mostly written quite a few. I stick to what I know well so they are mostly all Texas history related, people, colleges, small towns or related to college sports. I also will correct glaring mistakes if I see them and know for a fact they are off & minor grammar mistakes I find.

DeskFlyer · 2 years

I make some corrections/additions to articles from time to time, but usually nothing major. I created only one article.

drzowie · 2 years

I did. I wrote major chunks of perhaps 30-50 science-related articles in my field of expertise, and in fields I am marginally interested in (like nuclear physics). For a long time I fought to get rid of bad crank science (like the Electric Universe "theory" or the "sunspots are made of iron" "theory"). Then I got tired of wrangling with wikipedians -- I have bigger fish to fry in real life, and there is a large enough supply of people who want to do that kind of thing to blow off steam.

cinematix · 2 years

I have updated a bunch of futurama related articles

taev · 2 years

I tend not to make edits, other than spelling/grammar. I detest debate for the sake of debate. Certain classifications of topics, for example, bother me, but I have better things to do with my time than try to fight bots for control of the language of wikipedia.

armyofone13 · 2 years

I've never written a complete article, but I make small changes and additions occasionally

cheek_blushener · 2 years

I've started a number of articles, I've done some spoken articles, and I regularly contribute. I went through a phase in 2006 where wikipedia contribution was my main hobby.

One of the articles I started now gets over 20,000 hits a month, but most of them (including my favourite) get <100.

giantsfan134 · 2 years

I make a lot of small grammar edits and suggestions for larger changes on the discussion changes, but never actually make any big edits. I generally don't want to invest a lot of time only to have it reverted, and if I post on the discussion page I know that someone else will do it or people will improve upon my suggestions.

flameofmiztli · 2 years

I edit Wikipedia articles, but only in obscure fandom topics. (For example, I do lots of editing of articles on the original BSG.) I feel like I should contribute more, but honestly, there aren't many "serious" topics I feel like I can actually make contributions on, so I do what I can.

Yofi · 2 years

If by contribute you mean nitpick their grammar, then yes, yes I do. Although I did translate the entry on curtains into French. o.O I was bored…

Flaiware · 2 years

I don't touch the english wikipedia a lot, but if I'm looking for something and find it on the english version but not on my local version (swedish) I usually contribute to the local one. (Only if I know enough about the subject of course).

abelsson · 2 years

I'm a member of the (much hated) admin corps on Wikipedia. I've unfortunately not contributed much at all during the past months, due to lack of time, but if you could use the services of a friendly neighborhood janitor, let me know.

bdspinoza · 2 years

I mostly edit for spelling/grammar/vandalism/citations, but occasionally I'll add easily sourceable content. Nothing really of substance, to be perfectly honest, but I do what I can.

turtlestack · 2 years

I'm not into Wikipedia, but I am super active on Wikinews. Last count I've done 73 episodes at over 16 hours total audio.

The best part is I'm able to do so freely without the hassle of the wiki drama from wikipedia. Of course, that's because hardly anyone goes to wikinews :(

[deleted] · 2 years

I update and expand articles on plants native to the PNW if I notice discrepancies with the article and published sources. Sometimes if a cool bit of primary research comes out I'll update an article with that, too.

MTCicero · 2 years

Only one:

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

Wrote a term paper on him in high school. Still have an attachment to the nasty little racist

eandi · 2 years

I updated my high school article.

Tartantyco · 2 years

I'm a Grammar Nazi, that's the extent of my involvement.

grumpy_technologist · 2 years

I wrote my bachelors thesis on a subject that had a terrible Wikipedia page. I posted many details resulting from what I did and was very proud.

tl;dr *raises hand*

edit: as for requirements, I just added what I knew. Someday someone will come along and change or update any errors, if I don't sooner. Totally satisfied, would do again.

VisVirtusque · 2 years

I tried to make one for me a couple years ago. Here's what I wrote:

"Chris was not so much born as he spontaneously appeared one day, a product of all that is good in the universe. Other than his miraculous birth Chris lived a fairly normal childhood, engaging in Nerf gun battles, hot-wheels races, and other such activities children are prone to undertake. Until, that is, his thirteenth birthday. The day after his thirteenth birthday he realized he could read other people's minds. As he grew older he realized he had other powers as well: he could teleport (kind of like Nightcrawler in the X-Men movies, but a lot cooler), in the foot steps of Mario, he has learned to shoot fireballs with his hands and can shoot different shapes, he can sculpt water, and many other powers. Recently, while in college, he has learned how to make objects levitate. He has also created several new elements, Chrisium being the most recent. He plans to rule the world some day and has already carved out a small empire in the southwestern United States, centered in Orange County, California. He has named his empire Christopherum, though you know it as Southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico.

Stay tuned for more........"

........It was deleted and I was banned :(

br0k3nglass · 2 years

I edit wikipedia articles on a fairly regular basis, and was responsible for the creation of two brand new pages which have evolved quite well since I started them. I haven't been involved in any edit wars or had any nightmarish reversion experiences. 90% of my edits these days seem to be spelling corrections or the addition of references to articles. Also, if I read a great book about a topic and don't see it listed on the relevant wiki page(s), I add it to the bibliography. I've discovered so many awesome books via the bibliographies on certain wiki pages, so it's my way of giving back.

[deleted] · 2 years

Don't ever change anything written by a sysop.

Those people don't (internet) mess around.

MetricSuperstar · 2 years

Yup. I kinda got into it big time about a year ago for a few months. Earned a barn-star (like trophies, I guess) and a few friends then gave up again. It's not very rewarding. I still dick about occasionally but I don't live on it like I once did.

It's all very bitter and political behind the scenes; people deleting this and saving that and arguing and striving to become admins for no real reason other than they think it'll make them more respected.

I did a lot of work on this article. It's not very impressive. It then got trimmed back and nominated for deletion a few times. I also lied my ass off to get the thumbnail headshot up there because I have no idea what copyrights it had and no fucker would help me and an automated bot threatened to delete if it I didn't justify it's use.

So yeah, used to but not any more.

paiaw · 2 years

I used to regularly, but just don't have as much time lately. Created a couple articles, new page patrolled more than I care to admit, and I still edit pages when I find things to be off, badly formatted, or just spelling errors.

[deleted] · 2 years

If it's an article I'm really interested in, I'll usually try to beef it up or make corrections. I make spelling and grammar corrections whenever I see them (too easy to not do it). I hardly ever take information out of articles or start new one's, though.

[deleted] · 2 years

I do, I'm currently trying to put together a team to rework a lot of their Art technique/theory related articles if anyone is interested.

They are in shambles.

cojoco · 2 years

I have created a handful of articles, contributed substantially to some, and kept an eye on a few that seem in danger of being shifted by special interests.

Wikipedia is extremely vulnerable to vested interests; a small group of full-time editors with agenda to push can immeasurably damage Wikipedia's neutrality. This has been very well documented in a few cases.

Attempting to push against such edits is extremely emotionally tiring.

jmwchampion · 2 years

I'm addicted to Wikipedia, I was in the middle of editing when I saw this post. I've got a shit load of edits and have created hundreds of articles (all immensely obscure). It makes me feel like I'm contributing something to the world, and my writing and researching skills have greatly improved since I started editing four years ago.

Synaptic_Gap · 2 years

I have once...

lucasvb · 2 years

I used to be really active, mostly with images and animations for science and math topics. Haven't done anything in ages, though.

spike55151 · 2 years

I'm a terrible writer and my grammar is shit so I don't do those things, but I do add my own cc-licensed photos when I can.

the_argus · 2 years

I wrote one for a non profit organization that I made a website for. It was basically their info packet turned into a wiki article. Also I fix graffiti at times.

moxley · 2 years

Minor edits and additions to existing articles.

enkiam · 2 years

I wrote the stub for a power metal band a friend and I like, but most of my Wikipedia edits are reverting vandalism. I have a bookmark to a search of recent anonymous edits, and in 10 minutes of refreshing it, I'm typically able to find, revert, and report a lot of vandalism. The best time to do this is anytime kids in English-speaking countries are in school.

takatori · 2 years

Not anymore, because the vast majority of all submissions and edits I've ever submitted have been reverted or removed, usually by an admin without any explanation given.

It's one thing to revert something that doesn't meet some kind of editorial guideline, but not giving any feedback about the reason? Very off-putting.

I once spend an hour or more adding a section to an article, including footnotes and references, and the entire thing was reverted because I didn't format the reference correctly. Why not fix the reference, or point me to an example?

Also, the deletionists have taken over. What's the point of an encyclopedia on a nearly unlimited electronic storage medium, without it being encyclopedic?

ParrotofDoom · 2 years

I'm a pretty regular contributor to Wikipedia. I've written most of the Pink Floyd album articles, and random things like Blackbeard, Dick Turpin, etc. I do a lot of odd stuff, like Cock Lane ghost, Elizabeth Canning, Mary Toft. I'm one of the primary authors of Gropecunt Lane, a big contributor to Wife selling, and right now I'm working my way through the Gunpowder Plot conspirators (oh and I did a rather large chunk of that article too).

I enjoy it. You learn things, and if you edit often enough you become pretty good at copyediting.

jugalator · 2 years

I used to, for around two years ago... I even donated, and to my surprise, I once got a christmas card from Wikipedia. :D But for some reason, it doesn't feel as important anymore. :/ It's not as much about the administration, as it is about how "important" my contributions feel, I think...

Nowadays, I mostly just look after some articles that annoy me particularly much about repeats in a paragraph, and so on. Sometimes, it's just too noticeable, that a paragraph is about 2-3 people that have "collaborated", instead of one text that feels "fluid" to read. I.e. I try to shorten and remove redundant parts, etc... Fix up the language (even if I'm not from the USA or UK, haha!), and so on...

Merovingi · 2 years

I dont post on Wiki but i do enjoy the criticism section. People say "Wiki is often just popular opinion and false due to open editing" and their right! Its teaching ppl an important lesson about how information spreads though isn't it.

This is necessary!

VelvetElvis · 2 years

I've contributed sourced facts to articles on various bands I like. I do spelling and grammer edits.

I've worked on a couple larger pages as a project which was enough to convince me never to do that again.

kayura77 · 2 years

One time, Wikipedia was wrong. It said that Billy Corgan was the voice of Ikkakumon, but it's okay, I fixed it.

adamstarr · 2 years

I keep tabs on and occasionally add to articles on things that I'm interested. Writing my first wikipedia entry probably felt similar to what it feels like for an author to be published for the first time. I recommend it! I added some of the history to this for a school project and also have added to this and this.

zoweee · 2 years

Hell yeah, baby! Samsuiluna!

QblaKahn · 2 years

I mostly do spelling and grammar edits. All of my other edits are about bands/musicians and their albums/EP's.

dbarefoot · 2 years

Five years ago, I started the entry on cage dancing.

(In truth, I also make a few edits every month).

snookums · 2 years

Too many rules, rules aren't clear, a horrible syntax that turns away most non-CS people, not easy to find templates, etc.

Lacan · 2 years

made this one

DogBotherer · 2 years

I have done, in small ways, mostly corrections and little titbits of additional information, but now some superset of IP addresses of which mine is part are blocked from editing. :-(

FedoraToppedLurker · 2 years

I have a couple pet stubs I am slowly improving, but not much information is available online to reference.

KICKERMAN360 · 2 years

I re-wrote 80% of the Freestyle motocross article and a few bits of the Travis Pastrana article, only to have some halfwits add in tricks or information that isn't true such as stupid trick names.

wabberjockey · 2 years

I've started a few articles and contributed the bulk of a few others. Some are on subjects I'm pretty knowledgeable on, but others aren't. Sometimes I like to research an obscure subject I don't know much about and then add an article for it. I do it mainly because it's a positive contribution (like the many I've benefited from by reading WP articles to find out what the hell something is), and because it has a chance of lasting (unlike, say, a reddit comment). I don't like the contentiousness on WP, but I stay away from the political, religious, etc areas (which don't interest me) and don't run into much.

[deleted] · 2 years

Actually, just 1 real one. The rest I was drunk and changed pi to pie or something.

I added my great uncle as the guy who named the 76'ers. Every time I revisit the page someone changed it to something else though. Bastards.

jonsayer · 2 years

I was reading the article on computer printers out of sheer boredom when I realized that several paragraphs were just plain repeated over and over. I created an account and deleted the duplicates.

I also improved the article about the company I work for.

gwern · 2 years

By the way everyone, besides the usual edit counters, you can get a list of all articles you started at http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pages/

For example, for me:

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