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Saturday was my 20th #Wikipedia editing anniversary.
I have created:
* over 25 content articles (that have survived), averaging just over 1 per year
* over 100 redirects to make it easier to find pages, and to find topics which are only documented as sections of existing pages.
This year I’ve created five content articles (so far). Most recently:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Public_Health_Alliance
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaptureTok
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Public_Health_Collaborative
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_Health_Alliance
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_California
I have had quite the range of experiences editing and creating articles.
Many of my contributions to pages eventually disappeared after iterative edits or outright rewrites. I have seen repetitive wiki edits, repeatedly undoing changes made.
I have also seen others build on my edits, sometimes taking a correction I made and expanding upon it, with more citations, more details, or both.
Over time I learned various techniques, or patterns for editing, especially for creating new pages, to increase their chances of survival, while also discouraging vandalism or other attacks. I have found ways of writing that somehow get other editors to show up and help defend articles.
If I could summarize it in a few words, I'd say aim for short, boring, and factual content (with high-quality citations). New articles work best when they’re similar to and based on existing well-established articles, no matter how small.
I have learned that it is possible to defend the accuracy of an article even if you are outnumbered, by accurately documenting erroneous additions or changes on the article’s :Talk page, along with calm and thorough refutation of those erroneous additions. Doing so makes it much easier to revert any similar changes, and point to the pre-existing analysis on the :Talk page to discourage repetitive edits.
Wikipedia has a fascinating set of rules, guidelines, and mechanisms for working in the open, and especially in the context of attacks by all sorts of bad actors, whether griefers, or politicians and businesses scrubbing (or self-promoting) their image.
I found this article on Wikipedia’s systems and their resilience particularly inspiring:
* https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
I believe every open source project and open standards organization can learn from how Wikipedia works and thrives, especially in the face of antagonists large and small. I certainly have.
If you do not have a Wikipedia account, I recommend creating one and using it to edit so you too can learn firsthand. Make an account, then browse your areas of interest or expertise to see if you can find pages to improve. Be bold.
I was proud to add the 20 year editor badge to my User page.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:User_Twenty_Year_Society
It’s never too late to start.
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Two anniversaries today: microformats (18y) and POSSE (11y).
Happy 18 years of https://microformats.org/ #microformats!
Most prominent this past year (again) has been the littlest #microformat that could:
rel=me — AKA #relme, now effectively the standard for #distributed #verification on the web:
* https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me (originally introduced in 2004¹)
with support added in the past year for:
* #GitHub multiple rel-me links²
* #Wikipedia User page rel-me link³
, which is surprising since when it was conceived, the #IndieWeb community was in a period of very rapid innovation & iteration.
POSSE itself replaced a previous term, "POSE", short for “Publish Once Syndicate Everywhere”, which had only been around a year or two at most (I’m still looking for the first use of the "POSE" abbreviation for that meaning).
Since “publish once” was vague enough to include practices of publishing once on a social media silo, or in someone else’s garage⁵, we needed to clearly express the requirement to use your own site instead, first, as the source of your truth. Cross-posting to other sites & channels, is a second, optional step, ideally with a permalink linking back to your original post so viewers can easily discover and use your site.
That distinction was enough for POSSE to express a strong creator-owned-first publishing model that resonated and grew. Every time a silo shutdown⁶ at the end of its incredible journey⁷, removing posts & permalinks from the web, POSSE was there for people who were tired of losing their data, permalinks, & profiles, and wanted an alternative.
This is day 43 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 42: https://tantek.com/2023/160/t1/mastodon-activitypub-follow-form-bridgy-fed
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Glossary
permalink
https://indieweb.org/permalink
POSE
https://indieweb.org/POSE
POSSE
https://indieweb.org/POSSE
silo
https://indieweb.org/silo
References
¹ https://gmpg.org/xfn/11#me
² https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
³ https://tantek.com/2023/139/t1/wikipedia-supports-indieweb-rel-me
⁴ https://tantek.com/2012/173/t1/posse-core-indieweb-approach
⁵ https://tantek.com/2023/001/t1/own-your-notes
⁶ https://indieweb.org/site-deaths
⁷ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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Wikipedia.org (@wikipedia@wikis.world @wikipedia) now supports #IndieWeb rel-me!¹
Thanks to @taavi.wtf (@taavi@wikis.world) for the #MediaWiki RealMe extension²
Added it to my #Wikipedia User: page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tantek
View source and you can see the #relMe on a link tag:
<link href="https://tantek.com/" rel="me">
Instructions to add yours here:
* https://indieweb.org/rel-me#Wikipedia
This is day 41 of #100DaysOfIndieWeb. #100Days
← Day 40: https://tantek.com/2023/114/t1/venues-reviews-personal-pages
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Previously:
* 2023-02-01 GitHub supports multiple rel=me links: https://tantek.com/2023/032/t1/years-relmeauth-replace-openid
¹ https://wikis.world/@wikipedia/110396865170645710
² https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:RealMe
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Just wrote a #Wikipedia stub article on @CindyLi:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Li_(designer)
Please review, make corrections, and add more notable references.
Also needs a good Creative Commons licensed photo. If you have one, please upload to Wikimedia Commons!
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♻ Silverwizard @HippyWizard: #Wikipedia #deletionists are actively stupid and pro-ignorance, it's the only explanation ¶ via #Twitter, 'cos his #Friendica instance is down https://twitter.com/HippyWizard/status/901572815668826117
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But not on #Wikipedia.
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And, funny thing, I've been a #Wikipedia editor maybe longer than some #deletionists have been alive! Any 15yo with a Del key can play
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@bobjonkman Yeah, #deletionists and the #deletion_wars they spark are one reason a lot of people don't contribute to #Wikipedia. I know they prevent a lot of spam and self-promotion, but they may be too aggressive sometimes.
otability / significance requirements often boil down to "I haven't heard of it before, so it must not be significant."
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Annoyed by #Wikipedia #deletionists. Created article on @KWLinuxfest, tagged "request for *speedy* deletion" in 3 hrs, gone 4 hours later
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@maloki It's a formal description of online "agents" (humans, machines, groups - the name is Friend Of A Friend and is designed to graph social relationships). Based on W3C "RDF" standard etc: http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/ and more on #Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_%28ontology%29
My #FOAF profile document (can be used as a seed to start crawling the !fediverse): https://social.umeahackerspace.se/mmn/foaf
I can't find @chimo's example visualisation right now unfortunately.
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The #Wikipedia #deletionists were the biggest complaint we had during a Q&A session in 2011 with then-Executive Director Sue Gardner. Nothing got changed, a Toronto Wikipedia users chapter was never set up, and shortly afterwards the Wikipedians mailing list was cancelled in favour of (Yahoo or Google) groups. I was never very active on Wikipedia, but after this even less so. https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurelrusswurm/albums/72157650655305999
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Doing my part of the fight for a good, non-advertisement-driven #Wikipedia: https://social.umeahackerspace.se/url/49438
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Enligt #Wikipedia heter framstupa sidoläge numera "stabilt sidoläge". Tiderna förändras... https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilt_sidol%C3%A4ge
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#Wikipedia says "Android 4.4.2 Kitkat via CyanogenMod 11 (GT-S5570, GT-S5570i)". Of course it might be "too new" (resource demanding) to run smoothly, but have you tried it yet?
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@lnxw48 Every time I edit #Wikipedia I have to learn it over again. When I looked at the page I was just going to fix vandalism …
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I always forget how hard it is to get my head into #wikipedia syntax. Time to go make some french onion soup for dinner #onabreak
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Seems I spent a whole day fleshing out @HarrisAuthor’s #Wikipedia page !CDNpoli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Harris_(journalist)
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Es gratuito y ¡seguro que está muy bien y se llena! Mis comentarios aquí http://qttr.at/or7 #Wikipedia #FIE2015 #conocimientolibre
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24 abr taller "Uso de #Wikipedia en las aulas" por @jfelipe (Foro Int. del español #FIE2015 ) http://pili.la/wikifie2015 #conocimientolibre
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#Wikipedia's problem is probably that they do a really intense fund raising drive and don't…
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