Experts shared knowledge, followers of collaborative economy, some 80,000 volunteer editors stay updated on the 36 million articles in 280 languages of Wikipedia, who turned fifteen on Friday.
They are between 16 and 66 years and they dedicate part of their free time to write articles on different topics, correct mistakes and eliminate abuse.
For 15 years, the dream of knowledge created by all and is freely available It became a reality.
Since 2005, the conference “Wikimania” meets every year somewhere in the world scholars and Wikipedia contributors. The last was held in Mexico City in July.
At the local level, “Wikipedians” graciously drafted Encyclopedia meet regularly to disclose their mission. Every first Saturday of the month, a handful of them do, for example to exchange experiences in Paris
“Lock two more and I am with you”. “L”, a woman of forty years, Paris ends his daily patrol in Wikipedia to censure those who engage in insults enter the global encyclopedia.
Anyone can change anything as long as the information is source (books or articles), and all they participate in the search for errors. And it works: The site became a reflection of users and receives about 18 million visits per month on average
A utopia in action.. The typical taxpayer is a man-more than 80% of cases in his thirties, white and highly educated.
This is the case of “CMI”, author of articles on Poland in the century XX topic you are passionate about.
“I started because of a misspelling, as most. After you enter it’s too late, “jokes the young bearded proud to participate in what he considers a” utopia in action To begin, it is not necessary to create account nor alias “
.”: Only IP address (Internet server that does not necessarily identify individuals) appears. I used to correct faults, five minutes from time to time. I turned taxpayer identified (with account and pseudonym) in 2013, “he said.
” CMI “then launched into writing an article about a Nazi project in a Polish village-a little known historical episode on who had written a book little known. “Writing an article is a great satisfaction,” he says. “One becomes an individual within a group, serving a whole,” he added.
Today already author of about seventy articles.
Exit the anonymity of IP means enter the next state. Because the “IP” is often synonymous with vandalism.
“L”, which will not reveal his name or pseudonym, devotes five to six hours a day to hunt hate messages, comments or partial eschatological. An automatic program eliminates 98% of rudeness but only a human being has the power to impose sanctions. The author more exactly its IP- usually be locked for three days
Vandalism and punishment. If the initiative comes from a school or a ministry, across the institution as a whole is blocked, which just happen for example the French Interior Ministry, exceptionally excluded for one year.
> “0x01OC”, 21, began to add a photo to an article. Since then contributes to the pages of “Doctor Who” and participate in patrols maintenance thanks to a program that displays all changes in real time.
In Wikipedia, everything leaves traces. You can see the successive versions of each item and the surfer who modified. Wikipedians scheduled alerts on the topics that interest them: the biography of a star for example, will be closely watched-if any important news, compete for actualizarla-, although more specific issues remain largely unchanged
<. p> The major interventions such as the removal of a page, put to the vote: “If I open a page on my kitten, will be quickly suppressed,” explains WCC. When a page generated much controversy, changes are filtered out.
After 500 contributions and 90 days of registration, the person becomes a taxpayer “verified” and can participate in the life of the community as Voting on the deletion of pages.
Outside of that statute, Wikipedians claimed egalitarian and non-hierarchical. Wikimedia is funded through donations.
“If ours were a private project would cost billions and would have to favor certain Searches issues. Here everyone writes about what he thinks, “sums Nathalie Martin, director of Wikimedia France. “As taxpayers write about topics that are related, we try to diversify,” he adds.
In Wikipedia in Spanish the Popular topics ranging from football and basketball to the periodic table.
Wikipedians only regret one thing: the criticism of the reliability of the articles, very difficult to assess. “There are teachers who tell their students that Wikipedia is unreliable (…) and even introduce errors to test the correction time. It is like setting fire to your house to see how long it takes to get the firefighters, “deplores” L “.
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