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I'm just here to contribute to improving wikipedia. I'm not part of this community.
I'm here to become a more critical consumer of information on Wikipedia by participating in the project. I'm interested in pursuing good edits, how this process works, observing the insertion of bias (especially through ethnocentrism and apathetic ignorance), and in particular Wikipedia's contradictions (for example, read this essay about Wikipedia's supposed power structure). The decline in the detail within articles has made me skeptical of Wikipedia as a source of information. For the last number of years I've ignored the prose and only read through sources directly (as well as external links). Finally, I decided to start editing to see if I could fix the problems I perceive. Since Wikipedia is based on consensus (which can change over time), I figure my edits will contribute in various contexts towards change. So far I've spent a substantial amount of time learning the editing process, reading community debates and discussions, interacting with other users (especially helping new users to get over technical issues and encouraging them to keep trying), fixing citations, confirming information within citations, marking problems on pages, writing prose on some niche topics that I am interested in, etc.
My experience so far as an editor has left me astounded at the insertion of editorial bias through wikilawyering, the use of ambiguous weasel-words, a false pretense of consensusα and the philosophy of deletionismβ to justify the removal of verifiable information from reliable, authoritative sources. Additionally, I've been surprised while reading through deletion debates. It seems that arguments for deleting articles are based on the fallacy argument from ignorance. It seems like many editors are treating 1) their lack of interest in a topic (even if it meets notability requirements for a niche subject—for instance theoretical physics is not a topic of interest that most people have and sub-topics in physics that meet noteability requirements probably don't even exist in the minds of many editors) and lack of work on the article (there are many articles that don't exist right now that meet notability requirements—just because no one has decided to put in the work doesn't mean that the article shouldn't exist. Is the class rating system just decorative or isn't it mean to categorize articles based on how much work they need?) as reasons for deletion. I have the sneaking suspicion that there's a contest to have done the "most" (laughable) work to "clean up" wikipedia—even if it's phony work! Prior to my start in editing wikipedia, I had been intensely skeptical of wikipedia, but I hadn't had the first hand experience of what goes on in the community. Rather than complain (or in addition to complaining), I'm going to do my part to contribute.
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From the barriers to equity section:
My initial reaction to this is that these projects should encourage users to contribute only under pseudonyms and to avoid posting any personally identifying information. Additionally, perhaps the Wikimedia Foundation should pursue criminal action against users who engage in doxxing, threats, harassment, etc. since the Wikipedia community doesn't care about fixing those problems. This resource also comes to mind: https://onlinesafety.feministfrequency.com/en/ |
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Arwid Lund's monographc provides a close-range focus on the content creators, what are the motivations that drive them to create and curate content on this platform, and how their participation in this enterprise without any promise of remuneration for the creation of a use value can be seen vis-a-vis the capitalistic modes of production of exchange values.
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So, the author argues that the web has been colonized by the same forces that Neil Postman refers to via social media and that, consequently, the internet's amplification of society's focus on Enlightenment values has been dampened. |
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The author wanted to look at the underlying causes of the gender gap and lack of diversity as well as "... why those who already contribute actually remain."
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In Defense of Inclusionism - "a long time editor & former admin" offers a harsh critique of English Wikipedia and a defense of inclusionism. This essay was praised by Sue Gardner (former executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation) by giving the author the executive director barnstar.
https://thewikipedian.net/ - This might be the best so far
This section is here for easy reference to deleted material.
Key questions to mull over: what weaknesses are these alternatives trying to address? In what ways are they better than wikipedia and in what ways are they worse?
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