Re:Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006)
by Mathnerd314 on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:47AM
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It really depends on what you edit. Sci/tech/math is pretty much un-monitored in my experience. The economics pages are full of weird pet theories. Meanwhile, as you say, current events, biographies, and a lot of other less technical pages (that don't require the deep background that the article refers to) are infested with deletionists.
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Re:Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006)
by shdjchduwne7 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:07AM
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It really seems to come down to politics, specifically whether or not /any/ group considers a topic political. I've made a few reasonably long albeit anonymous edits to the pages for specific regional cuisines and so far the only thing that's been changed is someone altered my wording a little once by breaking a sentence up into two.
Re:Who Writes Wikipedia? (2006)
by iwillaccept on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @11:57AM
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I noticed the same pattern. Pages surrounding software architecture and companies always have some amount of fud in them.
Do we have any surveys for wikipedia like stackoverflow about the demography of editors and how many people visit pages in particular categories? How often will someone notice a mistake and try to fix it?