Wikipedia Editors facts
While investigating facts about Wikipedia Editors For Hire and Wikipedia Editors Are Losers, I found out little known, but curios details like:
On Wikipedia, editors are not allowed to contradict what Wikipedia-approved reliable sources say. As a result, a Wikipedia article in January was created based on designated sources claiming that five editors had been banned from Wikipedia when nothing actually happened to them.
No Wikipedia editor may climb the Reichstag building dressed as Spider-Man in order to gain advantage in a content dispute.
What must wikipedia volunteer editors do?
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 9 of the best facts about Wikipedia Editors Demographics and Wikipedia Editors In India I managed to collect.
what do wikipedia's volunteer editors do?
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"Although anyone can be an editor, Wikipedia's community processes and standards make it neither an anarchy, democracy, nor bureaucracy."
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Bryan Henderson. A Wikipedia editor who decided to embark on a multi-year project to fix exactly one grammatical error - removing the use of "comprised of" throughout the online encyclopedia. His work is comprised of making over 47,000 edits to address his linguistic pet peeve.
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Bryan Henderson. A Wikipedia editor who decided to embark on a multi-year project to fix exactly one grammatical error - removing the use of "comprised of" throughout the online encyclopedia. His work has comprised of making over 47,000 edits to address his linguistic pet peeve. :)
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Wikipedia has a page called "Village Stocks" to archive its editors biggest screwups
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Wikipedia had a massive fuckup known as the "Indian Education Program", which resulted in approximately half a million characters worth of investigations into copyright violations by editors recruited by the program.
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A Wikipedia editor has made 47,000 edits over the past decade — almost exclusively to correct other editors' incorrect usage of "comprised of."
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Wikipedia has "service awards" which are awarded based on how many edits and time of service an editor has made
