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Wikipedia I thought you were about democratisation
So today I was doing some googling and someone I know I noted has a wikipedia page but someone else I know who I felt was if not more notable didn’t so I thought it would be nice to add them and also I feel they were worthy of being included. I had recently wanted to edit Wikipedia as my work Winchester School of Art has a poor page and it had bothered me.
I did an ok job on the new person page copying from another person page also bear in mind I only recently got editing access back as my original Wikipedia username from probably 20+ years ago contained the word bot and so I was banned for a while as I tried to explain that I wanted to keep this name.
Anyway within less than 30 mins my new person page was flagged for speedy deletion. I updated my reasons on the talk page as directed. Subsequently I got no reply and the page I created is now deleted.
I remember when Wikipedia was about the idea that it wasn’t about a group of privileged white men deciding who could and couldn’t be included into the Britannica Encyclopaedia.
It seems now the case is the same but instead it’s online and not printed.
I tried to add someone that I think has contributed to very specific research and theory in the space of digital literacies and is known in this space. I would have thought digital literacy would be something Wikipedia would care about and might want to include know figures.
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Picture attached @help I added a books plug in and I guess it’s connected now my blog doesn’t update
I’m in the first 100k but because I live in the UK / Europe my Rabbit is unlikely to be dispatched until end of 2024… while shipments in the USA start in Easter and the hardware designers are in Germany… hmm
At least I know what I won’t be doing in 2024… improving Wikipedia
It’s still minus 5 in Southampton ! What the blazes 🥶 Monty the dog I don’t think even with you coat your gonna wanna go out yet.
So my friend Toby who is helping (basically leading) with nodenogg.in p2p has just redone code base with yJS now over trystero as webtorrent was too patchy and we refuse to use Firebase (Google) - it’s looking cool and working much better for sync over webRTC
