Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance

Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance by guaka on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @01:59PM (#13646091)

http://deletionpedia.org/ is a small project to cope with this in a positive way. A couple of years ago, when I was frustrated by deletionism once again, I wrote a bot that automatically copies articles that are about to be deleted.

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Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance by adekok on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:10PM (#13647217)

My experience was that the prime criteria for deletion was that the Wikipedia editors be unfamiliar with the material.

1000 pages on Pokemon? Great!

2 pages on obscure technical subjects, of interest to tens of thousands of IT admins world-wide? Nah... get rid of it.

I stopped contributing to Wikipedia when my edits were nuked as often as they were made. When spammers and people making negative contributions had their changes last longer than people making positive changes... well... Wikipedia is no longer of interest.

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Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance by Frqy3 on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:37PM (#13647937)

Wikipedia (with it's current edit culture) is an example of what bikeshedding looks like when scaled up.

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Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance by CalChris on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:23PM (#13647824)

Gawker used to have a series on this, The 10 Best Articles Wikipedia Deleted This Week:

http://gawker.com/the-10-best-articles-wikipedia-deleted-thi...

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Re:Watching Wikipedia's extinction event from a distance by stephancoral on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:47PM (#13646999)

this is awesome, thank you!

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