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Countries

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Video of editing

I was just wondering if anyone here thought that this video might be useful? File:Editing_Hoxne_Hoard_at_the_British_Museum.ogv. It is the timelapse of part of the editing process at the Hoxne Challenge event held at the British Museum last week. I was the instigator of that event and so I'm obviously personally fond of the video :-) However, I also think that it might be the best/only video of Wikipedia being actually edited by actual people. Because the premise of the day was to get experts from the museum and wikipeida into the room together I think this is a unique video and therefore potentially valuable for this article. What do you think? Currently the video is in-use at the British Museum-Wikipedia collaboration page here Wikipedia:GLAM/BM Witty Lama 14:32, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Unless anyone objects, I'll add it in a couple of days - probably in the "community" section. Witty Lama 12:51, 4 July 2010 (UTC)

Added. diff. Witty Lama 16:34, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Addition to Related projects

Consider adding: "A number of third party applications are using information on Wikipedia as their main source of information. Wikify, for example, is adding Wikipedia links to all words in a text which have corresponding article on Wikipedia. A project using Wikipedia's multi-language feature to translate special terms between different languages exists ^{[Citatioin needed]}." Spidgorny (talk) 09:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Alexa ranking

When I accessed the Alexa page, Wikipedia came up as 7th in the world, and 6th in US. Should we still keep the ranking, or should we change it to 7th? Pooh4913 (talk) 18:01, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

Privacy and tracking

In an era when increasing numbers of companies are installing tracking software on users' computers, it was interesting to see where Wikipedia came out in this study by The Wall Street Journal. [2] MarmadukePercy (talk) 16:27, 31 July 2010 (UTC)

Favicon.ico/wiki

In the list of most viewed articles for 2009, favicon is listed number four. The source is the Telegraph, which has a listing for "favicon.ico" at number four. Unless there was some greta media interest in facvicons during 2009, isn't this probably a slightly wobbly source, where the WP favicon has been interpreted as being an article? And, for that matter isn't "wiki" (placed at number one) probably the main page, not the article wiki?--FormerIP (talk) 09:56, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Liberal Bias in Wikipedia

Wikipedia's systematic and proven liberal bias is well-known and well discussed - but yet this controversy is not mentioned at all in Wikipedia's article. Why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 00Eregos00 (talk • contribs) 08:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Anyone can edit Wikpiedia. You can! If you have some content on this matter that you feel is worth adding, and is well sourced, feel free to add it. If unsure, you may find it of value to discuss your proposal on the Talk page first. HiLo48 (talk) 08:53, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Liberal bias? This is what American conservative websites and media such as Conservapedia like to say. They are very biased sources and would be unfit to cite in Wikipedia. I don't think it is socialist (the European word for 'liberal') myself, as many people of all sorts of backgrounds are represented on it, but Wikipedia policy helped along in that again, most 'proof' about this 'systematic bias' is in very right-leaning, biased websites as stated before. --Γιάννης Α. ^✆|☑ 01:30, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Speaking as a European, although British editor, "liberal" is not a term of abuse here, and I see nothing wrong with a "liberal bias", as long as we understand what John Stuart Mill meant by liberalism. As regards this place, I take it to mean neutral point of view, which has fuck all to do with socialism, whatever the nay-sayers cited above may claim. Let's face it, their models of social interaction and political economy aren't that great in historical terms, so they have little credence here. Rodhullandemu 01:37, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

As a former resident of the USA, I can attest to the fact that the meaning of "liberal" is quite different over there than in Europe. In Europe, liberal is pro-individual freedom and does not have the negative connotation that American conservatives (or patriots or whatever) like to give it. Teixant (talk) 14:07, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Agree with the above statement..however i do believe the more educated they are the more likely they are to understand the real meaning. Moxy (talk) 14:10, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

I cannot resist adding the fact that in Australia, Liberal is the name of the major conservative political party. Go figure. HiLo48 (talk) 02:37, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

This is not a forum for discussion about Australian politics, :( "supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation[citation needed]" It says this in the article. This is Wikipedia do we REALLY need to cite where the funding from this website comes from? They say it all the time on the site and if you can't trust Wikipedia about their funding then can you trust them about their database or whatever, no. So please who ever put "supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation[citation needed]" take down citation needed, it just looks dumb. I'm not trying to be mean, I'm just trying to get to the point, fast, and I don't want to spend time articulating it in a different manner. Thank you Cozzycovers (talk) 07:05, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I have no intention of discussing Australian politics. I simply added to a discussion about the word, which had already mentioned its meaning in the USA and Europe. HiLo48 (talk) 07:49, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

I'm just kidding, I just like splitting hairs. I mean don't we all on the discussion page? of course I should not even be saying this on this page b/c it has nothing to do with improving the article anymore.66.231.146.77 (talk) 08:09, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

Gotta Love Wikipedia

I couldn't help but notice that, although Wikipedia RAVES on and on and on about how it is UNCENSORED and that it is all about cold hard facts (with a credited source of course) - and I am not trying to be mean, this is usually true - even sensative material is uncensored, no matter how much it might affend someone, it something is relavent to the article and properly sourced, it stays.

But i JUST CANT help but notice that the wikipedia page itself is CENSORED - that is - only "special" people can edit the page. Not some nobody like me. "Anyone can edit Wikipedia!" WRONG. "Uncensored" WRONG - yeah I know, it says in a couple places that "anyone can edit ALMOST every page" but not everywhere, and certainly not the people who I See on the talk pages - the advanced users, you know the ones who CONSTANTLY (and ignorantly) just post wikipedia rules instead of answering someone. BE BOLD they say - even on this page a heavy contributer says "Anyone can edit Wikpiedia. You can!"

Although in my experience here both of those things are true Much, MUCH more than not - it should not be part of Wikipedia's constant boastings about itself, and policies unless its true 100% of the time. Yeah Yeah I know, the Vandalism - but I never did any Vandalism, so why am I unable to edit a page like this? AND how do I know that this page or others were vandalized? Maybe wikipedia might abuse that notion on pages they don't want edited. Now, I am only half-kidding about this article, Im sure it was vandalized like there is NO tomorrow, but for many pages, I am unable to edit. Wikipedia keeps track of EVERYONE, user or not - even if you dont post any signiture, it eventually pulls your IP address. Why didn't they just ban people who vandalized - a month, then a year, then forever (banned from editing that is).

If wikipedia does not allow EVERY LAST article to be edited by ANYONE, than it is censored, because there is no way for a person like me to know WHY was an article shut down - I can see the old versions of the article? so what - anyone can type anything, real or fake. And I have no way of knowing who DOES get to contribute - people who donate? people who have been on wiki forever and edited 1000's of times and are obviously in love with wikipedia and will stay in its favor and bias? workers of wikipedia?

There are other approaches to vandalism, and until one is put into action, i belive wikipedia is partially censored - which is simply censorship, and I will find some credable source that defines censorship in a manner similar to this - and when I do I will request it be put on the wikiepdia article - and if it is not, then I will piss and moan, and cry like a little girlie baby wuss, and ill lock myself in my room and I won't come out till I'm 30 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joeyo14 (talk • contribs) 08:51, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Weird Al's Image

I don't believe it's necessary to have that Weird Al's image as its message "you suck!" is clearly directed to Atlantic Records and in the context it seems directed towards Wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.90.207.174 (talk) 08:14, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia

I have been using wikipedia as a source of information for my homeworks, and just for reading some articles. In school, my classmates keep telling me that wikipedia is not a reliable source and I asked why. Well, they just simply replied that they keep editing some pages and put wrong data into it. In my opinion, I think that wikipedia must not let these "editors" edit any more page, but this is simply a tedious task therefore I suggest that wikipedia remove the anonimity of the "editors" or any editor in general.

This is another topic that I want to discuss.

There are pages in which we can find the summary of books, novels, short stories, etc. I personally think that there is nothing wrong with it but the users just abuse it. They do not read anymore the real books assigned to them by the teacher and they would not even read the summary from wikipedia just copy and paste then print. Honestly, there are times that I passed my homework by just copying, pasting and printing(of course i wrote the source) without reading any part of it at all.

The idea of wikipedia is a total marvel it's just that people misunderstand its purpose and abuse it.