Re:Can Wikipedia Survive?
by bane on Sunday June 21, 2015 @12:13AM
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So as an experiment, about a year ago, I helped created this page [1][2] (it had been around for a while, but had been deleted a few times). Some editor keeps deleting it or redirecting it to "cold chills" which it isn't. It's also not ASMR.
I've never had any edit to WP last longer than 24 hours, so I was surprise some version of what I helped resurrect still around. It's been worked on, edited, and even had some warning flags placed on it. In general, it's an improvement over what I originally provided.
Trouble is, I can't tell if this is because this is a weird and obscure topic area, or because what I provided (with links to research papers) was good enough for some bot not to automatically submit for deletion. Some of my original phrases have even survived which is pretty amazing.
I've never had any edit to WP last longer than 24 hours, so I was surprise some version of what I helped resurrect still around. It's been worked on, edited, and even had some warning flags placed on it. In general, it's an improvement over what I originally provided.
Trouble is, I can't tell if this is because this is a weird and obscure topic area, or because what I provided (with links to research papers) was good enough for some bot not to automatically submit for deletion. Some of my original phrases have even survived which is pretty amazing.
Contributing to WP is terrifying.
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisson
2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8190451