Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikipedia

Re:Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikip... by sien on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:56PM (#13496561)

The assumption that the world creates 50 person companies at the same rate as Sweden is not likely.

Company listings are actually often really useful on wikipedia, there can be some outside info that is far better than what the company itself has and if there are suspect things about the company wikipedia can link to them as well.

Wikipedia at one point deleted the article on Atlasssian because 'it wasn't notable'.

Unlike so many minor characters in Star Wars...

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Re:Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikip... by belorn on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:06PM (#13496621)

I said "very rough estimates" since indeed the world average is unlikely to be exactly the same as Sweden. But even if we reduce the global rate to 10% of Sweden (fair?), it is still 2 million articles and would cover half the current size of english Wikipedia.

Usefulness of non-notible articles is often discussed in Wikipedia. One side generally argue that any article that is useful should be included. The idea that notability is the criteria and not usefulness is an interesting discussion, and part of the deletionism versus inclusionism controversy.

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Re:Craig Newmark donates $500k to reduce harassment on Wikip... by oh_sigh on Thursday January 26, 2017 @07:15PM (#13496656)

Considering approximately 2 billion people in the world are self sustaining farmers, even 10% of Swedens rate is an over-estimate.

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