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As of January 9, 2008: [[User:Antandrus/contribs|531]] articles, of which 447 were from scratch, mostly on Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque composers and theorists, as well as musical techniques and forms. About 350 of the articles I have listed are on early music; about 300 are biographies; 68 are topical overview articles; 24 are about individual pieces of music; only 34 are on 18th or 19th century topics or people. I'm probably about 30% done with finishing the area to my satisfaction, and it's starting to seem like all the low-hanging fruit is gone; now comes the hard work of getting existing articles up to an encyclopedic level of accuracy, detail, prose style, citations, and references. In general, the whole area of early music on Wikipedia still needs a lot of information on just how everything happened, and a lot of articles need to tie in to cultural and political and religious history as well. |
As of January 9, 2008: [[User:Antandrus/contribs|531]] articles, of which 447 were from scratch, mostly on Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque composers and theorists, as well as musical techniques and forms. About 350 of the articles I have listed are on early music; about 300 are biographies; 68 are topical overview articles; 24 are about individual pieces of music; only 34 are on 18th or 19th century topics or people. I'm probably about 30% done with finishing the area to my satisfaction, and it's starting to seem like all the low-hanging fruit is gone; now comes the hard work of getting existing articles up to an encyclopedic level of accuracy, detail, prose style, citations, and references. In general, the whole area of early music on Wikipedia still needs a lot of information on just how everything happened, and a lot of articles need to tie in to cultural and political and religious history as well. |
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Somewhere north of 70,000 edits, though I count them rarely. I |
Somewhere north of 70,000 edits, though I count them rarely. I reached No. 20 on Wikipedians by Edit Count in May 2007, but have fallen back because I no longer spend much time patrolling recent changes (I don't need to: our bots revert vandalism much more efficiently than they used to, and we also have lots of new users who like to do this job). I've been around here for a while. Edit count is not irrelevant: it gives some indication of one's dedication to the project. Not an infallible one, mind you, but to deny that there is any correlation between edit count and commitment to building the encyclopedia would be rather silly. |
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I take article requests. If you spot something that is missing, or just substandard, and it is in the area of early music--or indeed, in "classical" music in general--let me know and I'll do what I can to help, if it is within my area of competence. Since this is a big area, that's a big "if." |
I take article requests. If you spot something that is missing, or just substandard, and it is in the area of early music--or indeed, in "classical" music in general--let me know and I'll do what I can to help, if it is within my area of competence. Since this is a big area, that's a big "if." |
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*Fill out the classical music area in general, and Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque in particular, since the early music area was quite undeveloped when I started. |
*Fill out the classical music area in general, and Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque in particular, since the early music area was quite undeveloped when I started. |
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*Starve the trolls. |
*Starve the trolls. |
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*Tithe some of my time helping eradicate vandalism, spam, and conflicts of interest; discussing deletions, new admins, and other matters; and assisting in anything else that comes up, since I think it is a Wikipedian's duty to help out on the maintenance side. |
*Tithe some of my time helping eradicate vandalism, spam, and conflicts of interest; discussing deletions, new admins, policy, and other matters; and assisting in anything else that comes up, since I think it is a Wikipedian's duty to help out on the maintenance side. |
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*Stay positive. Laboring in the shadows, unacknowledged, is hard after a while. |
*Stay positive. Laboring in the shadows, unacknowledged, is hard after a while. |
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*Always acknowledge the good work of others. I'm only a tiny part of the whole. |
*Always acknowledge the good work of others. I'm only a tiny part of the whole. |
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*Drink some more wikipedihol. It makes me happy. So there. |
*Drink some more wikipedihol. It makes me happy. So there. |
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*Contribute even ''more'' content. Avoid the typical burnout curve of ceasing to contribute to articles, increasing edits to policy talk pages, noticeboards, RFCs, Arbcom cases, and so forth: these symptoms precede Wiki death. See [[User:Antandrus/observations_on_Wikipedia_behavior|number 59]] for the analogy with stars on the [[main sequence]]. While it may be impossible to avoid, if one is aware of the inevitable, it may be possible to postpone. I have a specialized skill, and I'm not done contributing in my area of expertise yet. |
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*Contribute more content, do less RC patrol. I have a specialized skill, and reverting vandalism is too easy; others can do it. It's curiously satisfying, though, as well as addictive. |
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*Create free content ''only''. That includes public domain and [[GFDL]]. |
*Create free content ''only''. That includes public domain and [[GFDL]]. |
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*Acquire the knack of page formatting, so I can update this page without borking it. Thanks and gratitude to [[User:Phaedriel|Phaedriel]] for the page design. |
*Acquire the knack of page formatting, so I can update this page without borking it. Thanks and gratitude to [[User:Phaedriel|Phaedriel]] for the page design. |
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