Talk:Wikipedia

Pronunciation

In the midwest, a lot of us pronounce the first two syllables of Wikipedia WIkI whilst pronouncing wiki WIki. I don't know if this should replace the first pronunciation (with a slashed i) in this article, be a third accepted pronunciation, or if it is considered either incorrect or much too trivial to bother with. but its ok, yolo!!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.29.6.138 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 3 September 2012

Parody of itself?

There is a category of Parodies of Wikipedia, which so far does not contain Wikipedia.

"By an unconscious self-parody I mean a poem or a passage in which the author is both characteristic and unintentionally absurd. I regret it has not been possible to include any Carlyle because, when I came to look through that fulgurating prose again after a happy lapse of thirty years since I had to read it in Freshman English at Yale, I discovered it was all self-parody."

— Dwight MacDonald, Parodies, p. 474

Dwight MacDonald dichotomizes self-parodies as either conscious or unconscious. Is Wikipedia unconsciously or consciously a self-parody?

Kiefer.Wolfowitz 21:22, 26 May 2013 (UTC)

May I ask, why would one think that this encyclopedia is a self-parody of any kind? Wouldn't that mean that Wikipedia is effectively in a slow slew on a slippery slope to self-slaughter? – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 01:09, 3 June 2013 (UTC)

btw, KW, you and your quote have been quoted in an essay at wp:r-e-s-p-e-c-t ! – PAINE ELLSWORTH ^CLIMAX! 06:45, 16 June 2013 (UTC)

Source Number 53 is Wrong!

This source cites the book the World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman. As an owner of this book, I became interested and went to that page. Nothing it talks about is related to what it sourced on the wikipedia page. Please fix this!! Remove it. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.23.178.206 (talk) 01:30, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

It is possible that the source quotes from a different edition to the one you are reading, so it may still be accurate.  drewmunn  talk  06:13, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

As Sonicdrewdriver said, this book has multiple editions. Can you check if yours has the same ISBN as the cited source? —me_and 09:17, 27 June 2013 (UTC)

Spin speed in washers.

Looking for the average RPM's on top load clothes washers that do a "good" job. Wikipedia article on history of washers shows 600 to 1500 range and I would like to know if testing has shown a median choice. (Dede Briley (talk) 15:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC))

This page is for discussing improvements to the article entitled "Wikipedia", not for general discussion. Your question may be suited better to a different article.  drewmunn  talk  15:07, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Advert

This article seems to be written as an advertisement or promotion for the subject. 49.249.201.68 (talk) 13:34, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Yea, I think the first and third paragraphs in the lead wouldn't be acceptable on almost any other article. Hot Stop talk-contribs 17:43, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for being bold enough to say so on Wikipedia! 49.249.27.98 (talk) 12:37, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Having just taken a look, I disagree. They're broadly positive, yes, but it's verifiable and the lead also contains criticism of the project.

Of course, if you think you can improve matters, be bold and do so!

—me_and 14:33, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

Page is protected. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.248.245.249 (talk) 14:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Remove the protection and I will be bOLD enough to make your head spin.

—you_you 00:00, 30 April 1945 (WTC) — Preceding confusingly-signed comment actually added by 49.249.27.4 (talk) 16:07, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Clearly non notable — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.249.27.4 (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

The page is semi-protected, yes. WP:SEMI has instructions for how you can still make changes (summary: register an account and get it (auto)confirmed or write up the changes you want and request someone else make them). —me_and 10:32, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

hate you

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Make it longer

Any thoughts?

Mcfcrd (talk) 21:59, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Sarcasm would be my guess as its a huge article - Document statistics:

File size: 618 kB

Prose size (including all HTML code): 113 kB

References (including all HTML code): 24 kB

Wiki text: 166 kB

Prose size (text only): 59 kB (9306 words) "readable prose size"

References (text only): 1391 B

-- Moxy (talk) 22:21, 8 August 2013 (UTC)

Inaccuracies

should it be mentioned somewhere that Wikipedia is not a reliable source?--108.7.212.5 (talk) 16:40, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Not really, because its job is not to be a source. It is, in of itself, a collection of sources. Wikipedia tries to be as reliable as possible, but the sources cited within the article are where people looking for references should be searching.  drewmunn  talk  16:49, 11 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia site age

If Wikipedia gets past 20 years or older, Do you think the site will be shutdown in the future?--HappyLogolover2011 (talk) 03:26, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

1.7 Languages minor edits

(English, Dutch, German, French, Swedish Wikipedia, Italian, Spanish, and Russian),

the word Wikipedia should be moved to the end to read

(English, Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, and Russian Wikipedia),

five more have over 700,000 articles (Polish, Japanese, Portuguese, and Chinese Wikipedia)

only four languages are listed because Vietnamese (11th in the whole list, 3rd in the list having 700k..1M articles) is missing. It should be added like this

five more have over 700,000 articles (Polish, Japanese, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and Chinese Wikipedia)