http://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Alumnum&feedformat=atomWikiAlpha - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T22:23:15ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.26.2http://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wiki&diff=203015Wiki2019-06-04T03:05:05Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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<div>A '''wiki''' is an informative website, often an encyclopedia, designed to be quickly updated and largely open to contribution. [[Wikipedia]], created by the [[Wikimedia Foundation]] in 2001, is the most successful and well-known wiki. The first wiki ever was WikiWikiWeb, founded in March 1995. Since the 2000s, wikis about many different subjects and with many different styles emerged, including political wikis (such as [[Conservapedia]] and [[RationalWiki]]), humorous wikis (such as [[Uncyclopedia]] and [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]), as well as [[Wikia]] (Fandom), a domain reserved for free wiki creation that gave origin to thousands of wikis about popular media franchises among other subjects. <br />
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[[Category:Website genres]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=User_talk:Geo_Swan&diff=203014User talk:Geo Swan2019-06-04T03:02:11Z<p>Alumnum: /* Re:Missing file */ new section</p>
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<div>== Glad to have you aboard ==<br />
Hi Geo Swan. I'm glad to have you aboard and thank for your contributions. I see you have a great deal of good articles userfied over at Wikipedia. I'm fairly certain that they'd be welcome here. Anyhoo, I just wanted to say hi and thanks for contributing. Best regards. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 15:17, 6 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
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== Articles deleted from Wikipedia ==<br />
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I'm working on your list of articles deleted from Wikipedia. Looks like some have been userfied, so I'm still running through the list trying to figure things out.<br />
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The first 20 have been undeleted and copied over here at WikiAlpha by Moonriddengirl who has been generously helping me. There is a [http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki?title=WikiAlpha:Sandbox&oldid=10105 list here] showing the progress I'm making. Best regards. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 15:48, 11 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
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* Thank you very much with your help with this. I anticipate this will be hundreds of hours of work to get these deleted articles into article space here. And I appreciate every bit of assistance. <br />
* Another complication is that in some cases the article on the captive has been replaced by a namesake. [[Charles H. Carpenter]] being a case in point. <br />
* I'll try to get all the userified ones copied here within the next 10 days. For them I can look at the full revision history and form my own judgment as to whether I was the sole author of the intellectual content. When I askedthe closing admin of [[Charles H. Carpenter (lawyer)]] for their help I asked them if they could either also email me a listing of the contributors, or confirm my recollection I was the sole author of its intellectual content. They didn't confirm, orsend me a listing. I am not 100% comfortable, but I went with my recollection.<br />
:Thanks again! [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] ([[User talk:Geo Swan|talk]]) 20:16, 11 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
::I've gone through the list and [http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki?title=WikiAlpha:Sandbox&oldid=10265 updated it here] .It appears about half are already userfied, so I included those links for convenience. There's another set that were moved to your userspace then deleted, so only you are able to ask for those to be undeleted. I'll see if I can get a few admins to undelete the rest and move them here. Best regards. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 19:10, 12 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
:::I got some very generous help from two great admins, Dcoetzee and WereSpielChequers. It looks like there's only 40 or so articles left to go. The [http://en.wikialpha.org/wiki?title=WikiAlpha:Sandbox&oldid=10407 updated list is here]. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 21:36, 13 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
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:::* Thanks for all your help. [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] ([[User talk:Geo Swan|talk]]) 20:38, 14 June 2012 (MSD)<br />
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== Saying hi ==<br />
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Hello, <br />
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I'm just getting started here and I see you're active. I'm just saying hi. [[User:Stripes|Stripes]] ([[User talk:Stripes|talk]]) 20:13, 27 July 2012 (MSD)<br />
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: Hello, are you also active, or previously active, on the wikipedia... Would I know you there... <br />
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::You would not have known me there as far as I know. <br />
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::Read your e-mail. [[User:Stripes|Stripes]] ([[User talk:Stripes|talk]]) 21:10, 27 July 2012 (MSD)<br />
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== Hicks ==<br />
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I noticed in the recent changes log something about David hicks, I recall seeing an entry at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Innocent_prisoner%27s_dilemma on en.wiki] which says that the prisoners there are caught in an [[innocent prisoner's dilemma]] which is a concept most people have no clue about, so I wrote it on en.wikipedia and I've copied it here. I thought you may wish to know, or tell whoever may wish to know. [[User:Penyulap|Penyulap]] ([[User talk:Penyulap|talk]]) 11:13, 3 August 2012 (MSD)<br />
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* Woah! [[User:Penyulap]], I don't think I ever responded to this message. I don't think I ever saw this message. My apologies! Belated thanks for the heads-up. [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] ([[User talk:Geo Swan|talk]]) 12:47, 19 December 2017 (UTC)<br />
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I started out in Wikipedia writting list about characters that were in public domain. I noticed that some of the articles had missing characters. I tried to fill in the missing characters but the information I wrote got deleted. So now I'm here and hopefully I won't run into the same problems again. 04:02 pm, June 25th 2014.<br />
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* I hope that worked for you... [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] ([[User talk:Geo Swan|talk]]) 12:48, 19 December 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== You didn't ==<br />
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You didn't answer my questions at [[User talk:LuisAnton|my talk page]]. {{User:LuisAnton/sig}} 01:31, 26 March 2017 (UTC)<br />
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==Bad words?==<br />
:You did not say bad words. It is not good to say it. Good. '''''[[User talk:CityOfSilver|<font color="#EDDA74" face="Bradley Hand ITC">City</font>]][[Special:Contribs/CityOfSilver|<font color="Green" face="Bradley Hand ITC">O</font><font color="Red" face="Bradley Hand ITC">f</font>]][[Special:EmailUser/CityOfSilver|<font color="#708090" face="Bradley Hand ITC">Silver</font>]]''''' 03:15, 3 July 2017 (UTC)<br />
:* I don't know what you are talking about [[User:CityOfSilver|CityOfSilver]]. [[User:Geo Swan|Geo Swan]] ([[User talk:Geo Swan|talk]]) 09:08, 6 July 2017 (UTC)<br />
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== Re:Missing file ==<br />
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Thank you for your message! I'm sorry but I didn't get what were you referring to by asking me about a "missing file". Could you clarify? <br />
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Also, sorry for taking so long to reply! I was going to answer it 3 months ago when you sent it, but I ended up forgetting it for some reason!<br />
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Cheers - '''[[User:Alumnum|Alumnum]]''' ([[User talk:Alumnum|talk]]) 03:02, 4 June 2019 (UTC)</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Google&diff=202480Google2019-04-30T23:10:16Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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'''Google''' is one of the largest and most well-known technology companies in the world. Is started in September 1997 with its '''Google Search''' engine, which is still the most popular search engine in use, and later acquired other promising companies such as [[Blogger]], [[YouTube]] and [[Android]]. The company also offers many other popular services such as the [[Chrome]] and [[Chromium]] browsers, [[Gmail]], [[Google Translate]] and [[Google Maps]]. <br />
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==Alternatives to Google==<br />
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[[Category:Traditional websites]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=202351Wikipedia2019-04-25T01:56:52Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
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| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
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| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
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'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==Alternatives to Wikipedia==<br />
* [[WikiAlpha]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
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* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Category:Wiki encyclopedias]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Google&diff=202232Google2019-04-20T15:54:17Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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'''Google''' is one of the largest and most well-known technology companies in the world. Is started in September 1997 with its '''Google Search''' engine, which is still the most popular search engine in use, and later acquired other promising companies such as [[Blogger]], [[YouTube]] and [[Android]]. The company also offers many other popular services such as the [[Chrome]] and [[Chromium]] browsers, [[Gmail]], [[Google Translate]] and [[Google Maps]]. <br />
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'''Google''' is one of the largest and most well-known technology companies in the world. Is started in September 1997 with its '''Google Search''' engine, which is still the most popular search engine in use, and later acquired other promising companies such as [[Blogger]], [[YouTube]] and [[Android]]. The company also offers many other popular services such as the [[Chrome]] and [[Chromium]] browsers, [[Gmail]], [[Google Translate]], [[Google Maps]] <br />
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[[Category:Websites]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=File:Google_logo.png&diff=202216File:Google logo.png2019-04-20T15:46:29Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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'''YouTube''' is the most popular video-sharing website in the world. It was founded on February 2005 and acquired by [[Google]] on October 2006. Huge amounts of videos are uploaded everyday to the website, so there are probably tenths of billions of videos available. <br />
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* [[Vimeo]]<br />
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'''Twitter''' is a [[social network]] whose main feature are the "tweets", public short messages of up to 280 characters (140 for Chinese, Japanese and Korean), while users can also "follow" each other and exchange private messages. It is among the most popular social networks (together with [[Facebook]] and [[YouTube]]). Unlike other similar networks, Twitter allows pornography to some extent, but just like them, it is accused of [[censorship|censoring]] certain opinions and worldviews. <br />
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|birth_date = 1 January 1898<br />
|birth_place = [[Arles]], France<br />
|death_date = 1 January 1934 (aged 36)<br />
|death_place = Arles, France<br />
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'''Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment''' (19 January 1898 – 19 January 1934) was the daughter of the French [[supercentenarian]] [[Jeanne Calment]] who died on her 36th birthday, much before her mother.<br />
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== Biography ==<br />
Yvonne was the only child of Jeanne Calment and Fernand Nicolas Calment (1868–1942). Yvonne married army officer Joseph Billot on 3 February 1926, and their only son, Frédéric, was born on 23 December of the same year.<ref name=validation>{{cite book |title=Validation of Exceptional Longevity |chapter=Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life |first1=Jean-Marie |last1=Robine |first2=Michel |last2=Allard |chapter-url=http://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/09.htm |url=https://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/default.htm |publisher=[[Odense University Press]] |editor-first1=Bernard |editor-last1=Jeune |editor-first2=James W. |editor-last2=Vaupel |isbn=87-7838-466-4 |via=[[Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research]] |year=1999 |access-date=9 January 2018}}</ref><br />
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She died of [[pleurisy]] on 19 January 1934.<ref name=France-Soir>{{cite news |title=La longévité de Jeanne Calment mise en doute par des scientifiques russes |url=http://www.francesoir.fr/actualites-france/la-longevite-de-jeanne-calment-mise-en-doute-par-des-scientifiques-russes |lang=fr |trans-title=Russian scientists cast doubts on Jeanne Calment's longevity |newspaper=[[France Soir]] |agency=[[Agence France Presse]] |first=Victoria |last=Loguinova-Yakovleva |date=31 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=France-Inter>{{cite news |first1=Hélène |last1=Chevallier |first2=Stéphane |last2=Jourdain |first3=Valeria |last3=Emanuele |title=Les experts qui ont validé la longévité de Jeanne Calment répondent aux chercheurs russes point par point |lang=fr |trans-title=Experts who validated Jeanne Calment's longevity refute each point by Russian researchers |url=https://www.franceinter.fr/societe/les-medecins-qui-ont-valide-la-longevite-de-jeanne-calment-repondent-aux-chercheurs-russes-point-par-point |work=[[France Inter]] |date=2 January 2019 |access-date=2 January 2019}}</ref> Her death certificate was signed by an unqualified woman in her seventies.<ref name=Hopper /><ref name=Zak>{{cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329773795 |title=Jeanne Calment: the secret of longevity |first=Nikolay |last=Zak |publisher=[[ResearchGate]] |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.29345.04964 |date=December 2018 |access-date=27 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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== Identity swap theory ==<br />
Yvonne is the subject of a theory in which it was Jeanne who actually died in 1934, with Yvonne usurping her mother's identity, faking Jeanne's death as her own and continuing to live as Jeanne<ref name=Milova>{{cite web |url=https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/ |title=Valery Novoselov: Investigating Jeanne Calment's Longevity Record |first=Elena |last=Milova |publisher=Life Extension Advocacy Foundation |date=4 November 2018 |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=Zak /> to avoid paying the heavy [[inheritance tax]]es that would ruin her family's finances.<ref name=Milova/><ref name=Hopper>{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Tristin |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/historys-oldest-woman-a-fraud-theory-says-122-year-old-jeanne-calment-was-actually-a-99-year-old-imposter |title=History's oldest woman a fraud? Russian researchers claim 122-year-old Jeanne Calment was actually a 99-year-old imposter |work=[[National Post]] |location=Toronto, Canada |date=31 December 2018 |access-date=1 January 2019}}</ref> That would make Yvonne 99 years old at the time of her death in 1997 and invalidate the claim to the oldest person ever.<ref>[https://medium.com/@yurideigin/jaccuse-why-122-year-longevity-record-may-be-fake-af87fc0c3133 J’Accuse…! Why Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake] Medium.com</ref> <br />
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'''Yvonne Marie Nicolle Calment''' (19 January 1898 – 19 January 1934) was the daughter of the French [[supercentenarian]] [[Jeanne Calment]] who died on her 36th birthday, much before her mother.<br />
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Yvonne was the only child of Jeanne Calment and Fernand Nicolas Calment (1868–1942). Yvonne married army officer Joseph Billot on 3 February 1926, and their only son, Frédéric, was born on 23 December of the same year.<ref name=validation>{{cite book |title=Validation of Exceptional Longevity |chapter=Jeanne Calment: Validation of the Duration of Her Life |first1=Jean-Marie |last1=Robine |first2=Michel |last2=Allard |chapter-url=http://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/09.htm |url=https://www.demogr.mpg.de/books/odense/6/default.htm |publisher=[[Odense University Press]] |editor-first1=Bernard |editor-last1=Jeune |editor-first2=James W. |editor-last2=Vaupel |isbn=87-7838-466-4 |via=[[Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research]] |year=1999 |access-date=9 January 2018}}</ref><br />
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She died of [[pleurisy]] on 19 January 1934.<ref name=France-Soir>{{cite news |title=La longévité de Jeanne Calment mise en doute par des scientifiques russes |url=http://www.francesoir.fr/actualites-france/la-longevite-de-jeanne-calment-mise-en-doute-par-des-scientifiques-russes |lang=fr |trans-title=Russian scientists cast doubts on Jeanne Calment's longevity |newspaper=[[France Soir]] |agency=[[Agence France Presse]] |first=Victoria |last=Loguinova-Yakovleva |date=31 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=France-Inter>{{cite news |first1=Hélène |last1=Chevallier |first2=Stéphane |last2=Jourdain |first3=Valeria |last3=Emanuele |title=Les experts qui ont validé la longévité de Jeanne Calment répondent aux chercheurs russes point par point |lang=fr |trans-title=Experts who validated Jeanne Calment's longevity refute each point by Russian researchers |url=https://www.franceinter.fr/societe/les-medecins-qui-ont-valide-la-longevite-de-jeanne-calment-repondent-aux-chercheurs-russes-point-par-point |work=[[France Inter]] |date=2 January 2019 |access-date=2 January 2019}}</ref> Her death certificate was signed by an unqualified woman in her seventies.<ref name=Hopper /><ref name=Zak>{{cite journal |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329773795 |title=Jeanne Calment: the secret of longevity |first=Nikolay |last=Zak |publisher=[[ResearchGate]] |doi=10.13140/RG.2.2.29345.04964 |date=December 2018 |access-date=27 December 2018}}</ref><br />
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Yvonne is the subject of a theory in which it was Jeanne who actually died in 1934, with Yvonne usurping her mother's identity, faking Jeanne's death as her own and continuing to live as Jeanne<ref name=Milova>{{cite web |url=https://www.leafscience.org/valery-novoselov-investigating-jeanne-calments-longevity-record/ |title=Valery Novoselov: Investigating Jeanne Calment's Longevity Record |first=Elena |last=Milova |publisher=Life Extension Advocacy Foundation |date=4 November 2018 |access-date=5 December 2018}}</ref><ref name=Zak /> to avoid paying the heavy [[inheritance tax]]es that would ruin her family's finances.<ref name=Milova/><ref name=Hopper>{{cite news |last=Hopper |first=Tristin |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/historys-oldest-woman-a-fraud-theory-says-122-year-old-jeanne-calment-was-actually-a-99-year-old-imposter |title=History's oldest woman a fraud? Russian researchers claim 122-year-old Jeanne Calment was actually a 99-year-old imposter |work=[[National Post]] |location=Toronto, Canada |date=31 December 2018 |access-date=1 January 2019}}</ref> That would make Yvonne 99 years old at the time of her death in 1997 and invalidate the claim to the oldest person ever.<ref>[https://medium.com/@yurideigin/jaccuse-why-122-year-longevity-record-may-be-fake-af87fc0c3133 J’Accuse…! Why Jeanne Calment’s 122-year old longevity record may be fake] Medium.com</ref> <br />
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'''''Finland does not exist''''' is a satirical [[conspiracy theory]] which holds that the country of [[Finland]] does not actually exist, and that the land mass the country physically occupies is actually part of an enlarged [[Baltic Sea]]. The theory claims that Finland was fabricated during the [[Cold War]] by the [[Soviet Union]] and [[Japan]] to secure fishing rights in the secret open water.<br />
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==Origin and spread==<br />
The satirical idea holds that the country of [[Finland]] is a construct by various interests, chiefly the governments of [[Japan]] and [[Russia]], and carefully nurtured by the promulgation of fake maps, histories, tour guides, and other methods. Under the theory, the landmass believed by most people to be occupied by Finland is actually open sea, part of an enlarged [[Baltic Sea]].<ref name=Vice/><ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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The concept was first promulgated on the website [[Reddit]] in 2015. A subreddit (a forum section of the site) was set aside for discussion of the idea. From there, interest spread to other parts of the Internet.<ref name=Vice/><ref name=BodaHub/><ref name=studentabladid/> The original promulgator of the hoax (who remains anonymous) claims that his parents taught him the "theory" in all seriousness, and that he no longer believes that it is true but that he thinks that some now do.<ref name=Vice/><br />
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[[Performance artist]] Stephen Sheehan developed "Finland Does Not Exist" and presented it at the Crown Building Studios in [[Liverpool]]. The piece explores concepts such as life, death, and the absurdity of existence while referencing the conspiracy theory. A film is planned.<ref name=ParticularAct/><ref name=ArtInLiverpool/><br />
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''[[The Guardian]]'' used the Finland story in 2017 as one of eight examples of Internet conspiracy theories.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Belam|first1=Martin|title=JK Rowling doesn't exist: conspiracy theories the internet can't resist|url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/27/jk-rowling-doesnt-exist-conspiracy-theories-internet-cant-resist|accessdate=3 November 2017|publisher=The Guardian|date=October 27, 2017}}</ref><br />
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==Details==<br />
According to the supposed conspiracy theory, the concept of "Finland" was created sometime during the [[Cold War]].<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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The idea continues that, according to proponents of the conspiracy theory, Japanese–Soviet relations, and Japanese–Russian relations before and after the existence of the Soviet Union, have been in some ways secretive and mysterious. For instance, as early as 1925 Japan and the Soviet Union had secret bilateral fishing rights agreements, with the Soviet Union giving up much of its fishing rights to Japan with no obvious motive or explanation.<ref name=BodaHub/> (In reality, the two countries were involved in a series of military conflicts, beginning in 1812, over [[Sakhalin]] and the [[Kuril Islands]], the resolution of which involved territorial-waters agreements lasting until 1945.)<br />
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It is pointed out (by "Finland does not exist" aficionados) that during [[World War II]] the two countries (which then shared a common border) did not fight except at the very end, even though they belonged to enemy alliances. And Japan signed a peace treaty with the Soviets in 1941, just months before their German allies invaded the Soviet Union.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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During the Cold War, according to proponents (or pretend proponents) of the conspiracy theory, relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were always good, despite the major geopolitical differences and competing alliances to which each belonged. These secret relations supposedly continued up to the end of the Soviet Union, with [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] making trips to Japan months before the fall of the Soviet Union even when Soviet relations with the rest of the world were deteriorating.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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The explanation, according to the satire, is that they shared a common secret, a common asset that benefited both: Finland. It is not known exactly when Finland was first invented – possibly during the Cold War, or possibly as far back as the 1920s.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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The construct "Finland" is said to allow Japan to fish in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Russia without restriction from competition, catch limits, environmental regulations, or other concerns. In return, Russia gets a percentage of the catch.<ref name=BodaHub/> The catch is transported across Russia to eastern Russia (the real reason the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] was completed, the satire assert) then shipped to Japan under the guise of [[Nokia]] products. This is said to be why Nokia is the largest "Finnish" company and why Japan the largest importer of Nokia products despite the fact that very few Japanese people own Nokia phones.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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The "theory" explains the Finns themselves thusly: Finnish people exist, and believe they live in Finland, although they actually live in small towns in eastern Sweden, western Russia, and northern Estonia. Helsinki is located in eastern Sweden. And most of "Finland" is described to the world as scantily populated or unpopulated forest and lake areas.<ref name=BodaHub/> In the parts of Estonia, Sweden, and Russia that are allocated as Finnish zones, the [[GPS]] locations are manipulated to match that of Finland. Satellite images are forged. [[IP address]]es are spoofed.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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[[Social Democratic]] Western countries in on the conspiracy are said to benefit by using Finland as an aspirational model. Finland is thus arranged to always place first in global surveys of healthcare, gender equality, literacy rates, lack of corruption, press freedom, education, and so forth, to serve as a model for these states to hold up to their populations as a goal for policy developments in their own country.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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Another point made is that Finnish people make up 0.09% of the world's population, which is within the margin of error in censuses; that is, that 0.09% can be 0% within the margin of error.<ref name=BodaHub/><br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Bielefeld Conspiracy]]<br />
*[[Poe's law]]<br />
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<ref name=Vice>{{cite web |url=https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/this-dude-accidentally-convinced-the-internet-that-finland-doesnt-exist |title=This Dude Accidentally Convinced the Internet That Finland Doesn't Exist |author=Mack Lamoureux |date=December 8, 2016 |work=Vice |accessdate=May 9, 2017}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=BodaHub>{{cite web |url=http://www.bodahub.com/does-finland-exist-conspiracy-theory/ |title=The Great Finland Conspiracy Theory&nbsp;– Is it a Real Country? |author=<!--staff--> |date=September 20, 2016 |work=BodaHub |accessdate=May 9, 2017}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=ParticularAct>{{cite web |url=http://www.aparticularact.com/finland-does-not-exist |title=Finland Does Not Exist |publisher=A Particular Act |accessdate=May 9, 2017}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=ArtInLiverpool>{{cite web |url=http://www.artinliverpool.com/events/crown-building-studios-particular-act-finland-not-exist/ |title=Crown Building Studios: A Particular Act: FINLAND DOES ''not'' EXIST |author=Patrick Kirk-Smith |date=September 17, 2016 |work=Art In Liverpool |accessdate=May 9, 2017}}</ref><br />
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<ref name=studentabladid>{{cite web |url=http://www.studentabladid.com/efni/2016/2/9/5-conspiracy-theories |title=5 Conspiracy theories that just won't die |author=Arnór Steinn Ívarsson |translator=Áróra Einarsdóttir |date=March 3, 2016 |work=Studentabladid |accessdate=May 9, 2017}}</ref><br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/2qjohv/what_did_your_parents_show_you_to_do_that_you/cn6pn30/ Original Reddit post] describing the conspiracy<br />
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'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
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* {{Dmoz|Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia}}<br />
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
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| slogan = The Free Encyclopedia<br />
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| languages = Multilingual<br />
| registration = Optional <br />
| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] <br />
| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
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'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
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* {{Facebook|Wikipedia}}--><br />
* {{Dmoz|Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia}}<br />
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Image:VikidiaLogo1.png|thumb|Vikidia's [[logo]].]]<br />
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'''Vikidia''' is an [[encyclopedia]] made with a [[wiki]], using [[MediaWiki]]. Its goals are to be readable by a child from 8 to 13 years old and to allow easy understanding by people learning [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[English language|English]], [[Russian language|Russian]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], [[Basque language|Euskara]] and [[Sicilian language|Sicilian]].<br />
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It was inspired by, '''WikiKids''', a [[Dutch language|Dutch]] website, much in the style of the larger and better known [[Wikipedia]]. The major difference is in the fact that these sites are meant for minors. They are for children from the age of 8 to about 13 and everything in between, although there is no age limit.<br />
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== Characteristics ==<br />
As in [[Wikipedia]], Vikidia is an open wiki, so everybody is allowed to edit the articles. But Vikidia is also a wiki for children, so all inappropriate or shocking content, especially [[vandalism]], is quickly removed by the site's [[Sysop|administrator]]s.<br />
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Vikidia helps children to contribute, and some schools and teachers have involved their classes to write articles as a school project.<br />
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The [[Simple English Wikipedia]] is much like Vikidia, but it is written for mature people learning English with a lesser focus on children.<br />
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== History ==<br />
WikiKids and Vikidia were started in November 2006 and reached 16,000 articles in [[February]] 2014 in French.<br />
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The Dutch WikiKids now has around 18,000 articles, 208,000 users and 60,000 pages in total.<br />
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The Spanish version of Vikidia was started in May 2008, the Italian one in 2011, the Russian one in 2012, the English one in 2014, and the Catalan one in 2015.<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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== Bibliography ==<br />
*''Vikidia, l'encyclopédie des ados'', Luc Ihaddadène, ''in'' Okapi, June 2007.<br />
==External links==<br />
* [https://www.vikidia.org Main website]<br />
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| logo = [[File:WikiAlpha logo.png|frameless|150px]]<br />
| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikialpha.org<br />
| slogan = The Open Encyclopedia<br />
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| languages = English<br />
| registration = Required for editing<br />
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| owner = <br />
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| launch date = 19 June 2011<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
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'''WikiAlpha''' is an [[open content|open encyclopedia]], [[journal]] and [[news source]] anyone can contribute to. WikiAlpha was launched on 19 June 2011.<br />
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==Motivation==<br />
The rise of [[Wikipedia]]'s aggressive deletion policies particularly regarding 'non-notable' topics and articles published by Wikipedia newbies has been one of the primary motivations for creating WikiAlpha. The creators [[User:Richard]] and [[User:Govind]] feel that Wikipedia no longer serves the public interest as an encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit.' Seeking to expand on the concept of a publicly modifiable real-time publication, we have created WikiAlpha to serve this need.<br />
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==Approaching editors with AfDs on Wikipedia==<br />
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WikiAlpha actively searches out Wikipedia editors who are having their articles deleted and (if possible) retrieves their article and posts it on WikiAlpha, sending its creator a message telling them this.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
The [[moonbase2]] podcast for 5 June 2013 mentioned WikiAlpha's coverage of [[third-party Transformer]]s in a positive light.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/episode-245| title = moonbase2| website =http://moonbase2.libsyn.com | publisher =moonbase2 | host =Andy Millman | date = June 5th, 2013}}</REF><br />
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| url = https://gab.com<br>https://gab.ai<br />
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| registration = Required<br />
| languages = English<br />
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| creator = Andrew Torba<br>Ekrem Büyükkaya<br />
| launch = August 2016 (beta)<br>May 2017 (final)<br />
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| current_status = Active<br />
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'''Gab.com''' is a free-speech alternative to [[Twitter]], [[Facebook]] and other social media. It was created by Andrew Torba. Gab allows for free and open conversations regarding any topic without the fear of being banned or censored. It has been slandered as politically far right by several news sites, its competitors and Wikipedia, on which a politically biased article about Gab was written.<br />
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== Dissenter ==<br />
On 24 February 2019, Gab launched [[Dissenter]], a Chrome extension and website that allows users to comment about any webpage using their Gab account. Currently the browser plugin/extension is now available for most popular internet browsers on most popular operating system types. Notably comments can be made on any URL with the Dissenter software, which includes making comments on sites where comments have been: disabled / the site has no comment feature / the user was banned on the site / the site censors certain comments. It has been slandered as politically far right by several news sites. Additionally a clearly politically biased article was written about it (Dissenter) on Wikipedia.<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* Gab website: https://gab.com/<br />
* Dissenter: https://dissenter.com/<br />
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| launch date = 19 June 2011<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
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'''WikiAlpha''' is an [[open content|open encyclopedia]], [[journal]] and [[news source]] anyone can contribute to. WikiAlpha was launched on 19 June 2011.<br />
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==Motivation==<br />
The rise of [[Wikipedia]]'s aggressive deletion policies particularly regarding 'non-notable' topics and articles published by Wikipedia newbies has been one of the primary motivations for creating WikiAlpha. The creators [[User:Richard]] and [[User:Govind]] feel that Wikipedia no longer serves the public interest as an encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit.' Seeking to expand on the concept of a publicly modifiable real-time publication, we have created WikiAlpha to serve this need.<br />
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==Approaching editors with AfDs on Wikipedia==<br />
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WikiAlpha actively searches out Wikipedia editors who are having their articles deleted and (if possible) retrieves their article and posts it on WikiAlpha, sending its creator a message telling them this.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
The [[moonbase2]] podcast for 5 June 2013 mentioned WikiAlpha's coverage of [[third-party Transformer]]s in a positive light.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/episode-245| title = moonbase2| website =http://moonbase2.libsyn.com | publisher =moonbase2 | host =Andy Millman | date = June 5th, 2013}}</REF><br />
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<div>{{Website infobox<br />
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| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikialpha.org<br />
| slogan = The Open Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| languages = English<br />
| registration = Required for editing<br />
| num_users = <br />
| owner = <br />
| author =<br />
| launch date = 19 June 2011<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
}}<br />
'''WikiAlpha''' is an [[open content|open encyclopedia]], [[journal]] and [[news source]] anyone can contribute to. WikiAlpha was launched on the 19 June 2011.<br />
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==Motivation==<br />
The rise of [[Wikipedia]]'s aggressive deletion policies particularly regarding 'non-notable' topics and articles published by Wikipedia newbies has been one of the primary motivations for creating WikiAlpha. The creators [[User:Richard]] and [[User:Govind]] feel that Wikipedia no longer serves the public interest as an encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit.' Seeking to expand on the concept of a publicly modifiable real-time publication, we have created WikiAlpha to serve this need.<br />
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==Approaching editors with AfDs on Wikipedia==<br />
<br />
WikiAlpha actively searches out Wikipedia editors who are having their articles deleted and (if possible) retrieves their article and posts it on WikiAlpha, sending its creator a message telling them this.<br />
<br />
==Reception==<br />
The [[moonbase2]] podcast for 5 June 2013 mentioned WikiAlpha's coverage of [[third-party Transformer]]s in a positive light.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/episode-245| title = moonbase2| website =http://moonbase2.libsyn.com | publisher =moonbase2 | host =Andy Millman | date = June 5th, 2013}}</REF><br />
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[[Category:Alternative websites]]<br />
[[Category:Wikis]]<br />
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<div>{{Website infobox<br />
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| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikialpha.org<br />
| slogan = The Open Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| languages = English<br />
| registration = Required for editing<br />
| num_users = <br />
| owner = <br />
| author =<br />
| launch date = 19 June 2011<br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
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'''WikiAlpha''' is an [[open content|open encyclopedia]], [[journal]] and [[news source]] anyone can contribute to. WikiAlpha was launched on the 19 June 2011.<br />
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==Motivation==<br />
The rise of [[Wikipedia]]'s aggressive deletion policies particularly regarding 'non-notable' topics and articles published by Wikipedia newbies has been one of the primary motivations for creating WikiAlpha. The creators [[User:Richard]] and [[User:Govind]] feel that Wikipedia no longer serves the public interest as an encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit.' Seeking to expand on the concept of a publicly modifiable real-time publication, we have created WikiAlpha to serve this need.<br />
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==Approaching editors with AfDs on Wikipedia==<br />
<br />
WikiAlpha actively searches out Wikipedia editors who are having their articles deleted and (if possible) retrieves their article and posts it on WikiAlpha, sending its creator a message telling them this.<br />
<br />
==Reception==<br />
The [[moonbase2]] podcast for June 5th, 2013 mentioned WikiAlpha's coverage of [[third-party Transformer]]s in a positive light.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/episode-245| title = moonbase2| website =http://moonbase2.libsyn.com | publisher =moonbase2 | host =Andy Millman | date = June 5th, 2013}}</REF><br />
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{{stub}}</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=200150Wikipedia2019-03-02T13:00:56Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
{{Website infobox<br />
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| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikipedia.org<br />
| slogan = The Free Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| languages = Multilingual<br />
| registration = Optional <br />
| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] <br />
| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
| launch date = 15 January 2001 (English) <br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
}}<br />
'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
<!--* {{Twitter|Wikipedia}}<br />
* {{Facebook|Wikipedia}}--><br />
* {{Dmoz|Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia}}<br />
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Category:Web 2.0]]<br />
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[[Category:Wikis]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wiki&diff=200149Wiki2019-03-02T12:55:33Z<p>Alumnum: Created page with "A '''wiki''' is an informative website, often an encyclopedia, designed to be quickly updated and largely open to contribution. Wikipedia, created by Wikimedia Foundatio..."</p>
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<div>A '''wiki''' is an informative website, often an encyclopedia, designed to be quickly updated and largely open to contribution. [[Wikipedia]], created by [[Wikimedia Foundation]] in 2001, is the most successful and well known wiki. The first wiki ever was WikiWikiWeb, founded in March 1995. Since the 2000s, there emerged wikis about many different subjects and of many different styles, including political wikis (such as [[Conservapedia]] and [[RationalWiki]]), humorous wikis (such as [[Uncyclopedia]] and [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]), as well as [[Wikia]] (Fandom), a domain reserved for free wiki creation that gave origin to thousands of wikis about popular media franchises among other subjects. <br />
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[[Category:Website genres]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Wikis&diff=200148Category:Wikis2019-03-02T12:42:29Z<p>Alumnum: Created page with "Category:Websites"</p>
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<div>[[Category:Websites]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=200147Wikipedia2019-03-02T12:41:31Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
{{Website infobox<br />
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia logo.png|frameless|150px|alt=A white sphere made of large jigsaw pieces. Letters from many alphabets are shown on the pieces.]]<br />
| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikipedia.org<br />
| slogan = The Free Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| language = Multilingual<br />
| registration = Optional <br />
| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] <br />
| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
| launch date = 15 January 2001 (English) <br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
}}<br />
'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
{{reflist}}<br />
<br />
==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
<!--* {{Twitter|Wikipedia}}<br />
* {{Facebook|Wikipedia}}--><br />
* {{Dmoz|Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia}}<br />
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Category:Traditional websites]]<br />
[[Category:Web 2.0]]<br />
[[Category:Wikimedia projects]]<br />
[[Category:Wikis]]</div>Alumnumhttp://en.wikialpha.org/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wikipedia&diff=200146Wikipedia2019-03-02T12:41:06Z<p>Alumnum: </p>
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
{{Website infobox<br />
| logo = [[File:Wikipedia logo.png|frameless|150px|alt=A white sphere made of large jigsaw pieces. Letters from many alphabets are shown on the pieces.]]<br />
| screenshot = <br />
| url = http://wikipedia.org<br />
| slogan = The Free Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| language = Multilingual<br />
| registration = Optional <br />
| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] <br />
| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
| launch date = 15 January 2001 (English) <br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
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'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
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* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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| slogan = The Open Encyclopedia<br />
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'''WikiAlpha''' is an [[open content|open encyclopedia]], [[journal]] and [[news source]] anyone can contribute to. WikiAlpha was launched on the 19 June 2011.<br />
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==Motivation==<br />
The rise of [[Wikipedia]]'s aggressive deletion policies particularly regarding 'non-notable' topics and articles published by Wikipedia newbies has been one of the primary motivations for creating WikiAlpha. The creators [[User:Richard]] and [[User:Govind]] feel that Wikipedia no longer serves the public interest as an encyclopedia that 'anyone can edit.' Seeking to expand on the concept of a publicly modifiable real-time publication, we have created WikiAlpha to serve this need.<br />
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==Approaching editors with AfDs on Wikipedia==<br />
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WikiAlpha actively searches out Wikipedia editors who are having their articles deleted and (if possible) retrieves their article and posts it on WikiAlpha, sending its creator a message telling them this.<br />
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==Reception==<br />
The [[moonbase2]] podcast for June 5th, 2013 mentioned WikiAlpha's coverage of [[third-party Transformer]]s in a positive light.<REF>{{Cite podcast | url = http://moonbase2.libsyn.com/episode-245| title = moonbase2| website =http://moonbase2.libsyn.com | publisher =moonbase2 | host =Andy Millman | date = June 5th, 2013}}</REF><br />
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<div>''For the differences between Wikipedia and WikiAlpha, please read [[WikiAlpha:WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia|WikiAlpha is not Wikipedia]].''<br />
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| url = http://wikipedia.org<br />
| slogan = The Free Encyclopedia<br />
| type = [[Wiki]]<br />
| language = Multilingual<br />
| registration = Optional <br />
| num_users = 80 million (all languages)<br>35 million (English)<br />
| owner = [[Wikimedia Foundation]] <br />
| author = [[Jimmy Wales]], [[Larry Sanger]]<br />
| launch date = 15 January 2001 (English) <br />
| commercial = No<br />
| current status = Active<br />
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'''Wikipedia''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|ɨ|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} or {{IPAc-en|ˌ|w|ɪ|k|i|ˈ|p|iː|d|i|ə}} {{respell|WIK|i|PEE|dee-ə}}) is an open and [[multilingualism|multilingual]] [[wiki]] supported by the non-profit [[Wikimedia Foundation]] through donations. It is by far the most successful and well known wiki in existence, as well as the largest and one of the oldest still active. Its 50 million articles (5 million in [[English Wikipedia|English]] alone)<ref>As of 1 March 2019.</ref> have been written collaboratively by volunteers from around the world. Most of its pages can be edited by anyone with access to the site, and the English version has about 140,000 regularly active contributors. As of March 2019, there are active editions of Wikipedia in 293 languages.<ref>[https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias List of Wikipedias]. Meta-Wiki.</ref> It has become the largest and most popular general reference work on the Internet,<ref name=Tancer>{{cite news |url = http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1595184,00.html |title = Look Who's Using Wikipedia |author = Bill Tancer |date = May 1, 2007 |work = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] |quote = The sheer volume of content [...] is partly responsible for the site's dominance as an online reference. When compared to the top 3,200 educational reference sites in the US, Wikipedia is No. 1, capturing 24.3% of all visits to the category |accessdate = December 1, 2007 }}. [[Cf.]] Bill Tancer (Global Manager, Hitwise), [http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html "Wikipedia, Search and School Homework"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325220239/http://weblogs.hitwise.com/bill-tancer/2007/03/wikipedia_search_and_school_ho.html |date=March 25, 2012 }}, ''[[Hitwise]]'', March 1, 2007.</ref><ref name=Woodson>{{cite news |url = https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0819429120070708 |title = Wikipedia remains go-to site for online news |date = July 8, 2007 |author = Alex Woodson |agency = Reuters |quote = Online encyclopedia Wikipedia has added about 20 million unique monthly visitors in the past year, making it the top online news and information destination, according to Nielsen//NetRatings. |accessdate = December 16, 2007 }}</ref> and one of the most popular websites according to [[Alexa Internet|Alexa]] rank. <br />
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Wikipedia was launched in January 2001 by [[Jimmy Wales]] and [[Larry Sanger]].<ref name=MiliardWho>{{cite news |url = http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-5129-feature-wikipediots-who-are-these-devoted-even-obsessive-contributors-to-wikipedia.html |author = Mike Miliard |title = Wikipediots: Who Are These Devoted, Even Obsessive Contributors to Wikipedia? |work = [[Salt Lake City Weekly]] |date = March 1, 2008 |accessdate = December 18, 2008 }}</ref> Sanger coined the name ''Wikipedia'',<ref>How I started Wikipedia, presentation by Larry Sanger</ref> which is a [[portmanteau]] of '''''[[wiki]]''''' (a technology for creating [[website]]s collaboratively, from the Hawaiian word ''[[Wikt:wiki#Hawaiian|wiki]]'', meaning "quick")<ref>“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986</ref> and [[Wikt:encyclopedia|''encyclo'''pedia''''']].<br />
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In 2005, ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' published a peer review comparing 42 [[hard science]] articles from ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' and Wikipedia and found that Wikipedia's level of accuracy approached that of ''Britannica'',<ref name="GilesJ2005Internet">{{cite journal |author = Jim Giles |title = Internet encyclopedias go head to head |journal = [[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume = 438 |issue = 7070 |pages = 900–901 |date = December 2005 |pmid = 16355180 |url = http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html |doi = 10.1038/438900a |authorlink = Jim Giles (reporter) |bibcode = 2005Natur.438..900G }}{{subscription required}}<br />
Note: The study was cited in several news articles; e.g.:<br />
* {{cite news |title = Wikipedia survives research test |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm |date = December 15, 2005 |accessdate = }}</ref> although critics suggested that it might not have fared so well in a similar study of a random sampling of all articles or one focused on social science or contentious social issues.<ref>Reagle, pp. 165–166.</ref><ref name="Orlowski2005">{{cite news |last1=Orlowski |first1=Andrew |title=Wikipedia science 31% more cronky than Britannica's Excellent for Klingon science, though |url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/16/wikipedia_britannica_science_comparison/ |accessdate=25 February 2019 |work=[[The Register]] |date=16 Dec 2005}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine stated that the open-door policy of allowing anyone to edit had made Wikipedia the biggest and possibly the best encyclopedia in the world, and was a testament to the vision of Jimmy Wales.<ref>{{Cite journal |url = http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1975813_1975844_1976488,00.html |title= The 2006 Time 100 |journal= Time |date= May 8, 2006 |accessdate= November 11, 2017 }}</ref><br />
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Wikipedia [[Criticism of Wikipedia|has been criticized]] for exhibiting [[systemic bias]], for presenting a mixture of "truths, half truths, and some falsehoods",<ref name=EdwinBlack>[[Edwin Black|Black, Edwin]] (April 19, 2010) [http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 Wikipedia – The Dumbing Down of World Knowledge] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160909210831/http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/125437 |date=September 9, 2016 }}, [[History News Network]] Retrieved October 21, 2014</ref> and for being subject to manipulation and [[spin (propaganda)|spin]] in controversial topics.<ref name=Petrilli>J. Petrilli, Michael (SPRING 2008/Vol.8, No.2) [http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ Wikipedia or Wickedpedia?] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161121024654/http://educationnext.org/wikipedia-or-wickedpedia/ |date=November 21, 2016 }}, [[Education Next]] Retrieved October 22, 2014</ref> In 2017, [[Facebook]] announced that it would help readers detect [[fake news]] by suitable links to Wikipedia articles. [[YouTube]] announced a similar plan in 2018.<ref name="auto">{{cite news|first=Noam|last=Cohen|title=Conspiracy videos? Fake news? Enter Wikipedia, the ‘good cop’ of the Internet|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html|work=The Washington Post|date=April 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614045810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/conspiracy-videos-fake-news-enter-wikipedia-the-good-cop-of-the-internet/2018/04/06/ad1f018a-3835-11e8-8fd2-49fe3c675a89_story.html |archive-date=June 14, 2018 }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia] – multilingual portal (contains links to all language editions of the project)<br />
* [http://mobile.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia mobile phone portal]<br />
<!--* {{Twitter|Wikipedia}}<br />
* {{Facebook|Wikipedia}}--><br />
* {{Dmoz|Computers/Open_Source/Open_Content/Encyclopedias/Wikipedia}}<br />
* [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/wikipedia/index.html Wikipedia] topic page at ''[[The New York Times]]''<br />
* [http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/jimmy_wales_on_the_birth_of_wikipedia.html Video of TED Talk by Jimmy Wales on the birth of Wikipedia]<br />
* [http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/03/wales_on_wikipe.html Audio of interview with Jimmy Wales about Wikipedia in general] on the [[EconTalk]] podcast<br />
* [http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/020116.html Wikipedia and why it matters] – Larry Sanger's 2002 talk at [[Stanford University]]. [http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/020116-ee380-100.asx Video archive].<br />
* [http://ten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page 10 Wikipedia]<br />
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[[Category:Virtual communities]]<br />
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<div>This page is to discuss WikiAlpha policy and other related topics.<br />
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==Wikipedia Protest==<br />
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Does anyone think we should stage some kind of protest on wikipedia? [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 16:21, 29 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
:no[[User:Mathewignash|Mathewignash]] ([[User talk:Mathewignash|talk]]) 17:46, 29 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
::Yes and no. There's no need for organized or disruptive activity, nor spam, nor bots, nor anything improper. As individuals, we encounter people who have had things deleted improperly, or who have had material deleted in contentious processes (Sep11wiki, for example). Just talk to them, one by one, person to person, if you feel that this site offers a possible solution for their problem. [[User:Wnt|Wnt]] ([[User talk:Wnt|talk]]) 21:59, 29 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
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I'm not suggesting anything vicious or disruptive, more of some kind of verbal protest on their policy discussion page.[[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 22:57, 29 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
:What are you wanting to protest exactly? [[User:☂|☂]] ([[User talk:☂|talk]]) 00:19, 30 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
*I see no point in a "protest" from here. It doesn't seem to be the purpose of Wikialpha to change or disrupt Wikipedia. Let them have their rules, and let Wikialpha have it's rules. Editors will edit on their wiki of choice. Wikialpha doesn't seem to be here to change wikipedia, it's here to improve on it by taking the material they discard and giving it a home. [[User:Mathewignash|Mathewignash]] ([[User talk:Mathewignash|talk]]) 00:29, 30 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
::'''Do I want to protest Wikipedia?''' Yes. Absolutely. Wikipedia is actively hostile and needs to change.<br /><br />
::'''Am I going to protest Wikipedia?''' Nah, it wouldn't do any good. I agree with others above. WikiAlpha provides a service that Wikipedia doesn't offer - a safe haven. So as we find others that are being mistreated at Wikipedia, we can kindly offer them a safe place to edit here at WikiAlpha. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 09:05, 30 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
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Fair enough [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 10:23, 30 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
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How well publicised is WikiAlpha? does everyone with an AfD on Wikipedia get sent a message? [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 21:22, 30 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
:''How well publicised is WikiAlpha?'' Many of the deletionists know about WikiAlpha, but hardly any of the people who have articles deleted know about us.<br /><br />
:''does everyone with an AfD on Wikipedia get sent a message?'' Nope. Some early attempts were made at notifying some of the people who's articles were AfDed. The deletionists were upset that people were notified that their articles were deleted. You can read some of the responses [[Wikipedia's Treatment of WikiAlpha|here]]. I don't recall exactly, but somewhere between 1,000 and 3,000 artcles a day are deleted through CSDs, AfDs or PRODs. It would be difficult to notify that many people each day. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 03:32, 31 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
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How can you find people whose articles are being deleted? [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 18:35, 31 July 2011 (MSD)<br />
:Probably the best way is to check Wikipedia's [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Help desk|help desk]] and Wikpedia's village pumps ([[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)|policy]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)|proposals]], [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)|miscellaneous]]) for users that have mentioned their articles were deleted. The user that posted [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)#Live Wire .28band.29|this]] is probably a good example of somebody that would like to move to WikiAlpha. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 04:32, 1 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
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Thanks [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 11:05, 4 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
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==Get WikiAlpha on the news?==<br />
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We could try and get WikiAlpha and what it is trying to do better publicized by getting it in the news, or just the general issue of wikipedia deletionism. [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 14:28, 4 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
:It might not help much to have media coverage of Wikialpha until it's more than a collection of 200+ articles on unnotable Transformers, video games and RPG books, but you can certainly tell people to come here and work on new articles. I don't think advertising about Wikipedia's failings is Wikialpha's concern is it? If you want to tell people you like/dislike Wikialpha or Wikipedia because of how they differ, feel free to do so. [[User:Mathewignash|Mathewignash]] ([[User talk:Mathewignash|talk]]) 17:34, 4 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
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==Should we look for articles other than AfD's on wikipedia?==<br />
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For example, looking at all the tiny homemade wikis such as [http://sstbq.wikia.com/wiki/Stamford_School_TBQ_community_Wiki TBQ community wiki] and putting some of their better articles on here? [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 19:40, 4 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
:Sounds good to me. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 06:21, 23 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
OK [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 14:10, 26 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
:I started looking for articles that had sections cut from them. For instance, I've seen articles on comedy films (like Spaceballs or Airplane) where someone adds a nice list of all the films being parodied, but they get deleted as lists of "trivia" or original research. I'd like to see lists like that restored here. [[User:Mathewignash|Mathewignash]] ([[User talk:Mathewignash|talk]]) 20:02, 26 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
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This sounds like a good idea. How should you go about finding such articles? [[User:Alicianpig|Alicianpig]] ([[User talk:Alicianpig|talk]]) 23:39, 27 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
:Not sure about others, but I always come across this stuff accidentally. I guess if you wanted to look, you could search the help desk [[Wikipedia:WP:HD]] or the village pumps [[Wikipedia:WP:VP]] for people that have mentioned having stuff removed. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 08:51, 28 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
*Follow the smoke to find the fire. Look on pages aboiut people complaining about their material being deleted, look for articles that are suddenly much smaller than they used to be, look for any edits by the chief deletionists, like Reyk, Black Kite or Tarc. A lot of their edits are deletions of material. [[User:Mathewignash|Mathewignash]] ([[User talk:Mathewignash|talk]]) 16:55, 28 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
::Funny how all of us know the same people. Reminds me of the [[Wikipedia:Bastard Operator From Hell|Bastard Operator From Hell]] from days gone by. Actually, it's sad that there are those that have made that kind of a name for themselves, but then again, it means we get happy places like WikiAlpha. One other place to look would be [[Wikipedia:Special:RecentChanges]] for stuff that has been reverted. [[User:Web|Web]] ([[User talk:Web|talk]]) 09:39, 29 August 2011 (MSD)<br />
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