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Are You A Wikipedia Editor, Citer, Or Demi?
I used to be an editor on Wikipedia. But over the last year I stopped bothering. I have 3 classifications that all editors fall into. An "Editor", which is just a normal person that edits and adds content. Editors are the vast majority of contributors. "Citers", are worthless editors who sole purpose is to place "Citations Needed" tags everywhere, without even trying to find the source info themselves. And "Demi's", as in Demigods. Demi's are Editors that spent a lot of time editing content. So they feel that every profile is theirs, and no one else can add or change content. These worthless editors don't all for any new changes or content, unless they feel it fits info the article. This is why I no longer bother, because Wiki is just full of lazy Citers and ignorant Demi's. In the end, making Wiki's not professional sources of info, but rather just a site of Cited content, with no new changes being allowed by Demi's.
If you edit Wiki's, what type of Editor do you feel you are?
I never worked for Wikipedia, this is something people do for fun. Editors don't get paid for this. And you should never post your email address anywhere. This is how spammers get email addresses.
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I'm definitely just a normal editor. I always tried to save articles and not just tag them mindlessly. I have to agree with you on most of your points and I definitely agree that Wikipedia has lots of problems with the way it's run; admins are allowed too much power and it really is just a big boy's club. I prefer Wikihow - at least there your edits are almost always kept and hardly altered.
- 1 decade ago
I try not to give the guys at WP too much flak cos after all they're (mostly) going about their business with best intentions. Yeah it sucks when they plaster 'citation needed' tags all over your article but it's only an attempt to make the wiki better, which is, after all, what everyone wants.
Wikipedia has never been about professional sources of info (see 'no original research' policy), I mean your little brother could edit it for Pete's sake and certainly mine has never had a textbook published ;-)
With a community driven project as large as WP you're always gonna get domineering admins and such like. For example, don't even think about adding stuff to George Bush's entry cos it'll likely be trodden on by elephants. But again that's only because there's loads of people who (no offence) could probably "write better than you" and so on.
Me? I like to think of myself as a regular editor but it is sometimes galling when people wipe out all your edits and it's easy to get annoyed. That's why I'm sticking to illogicopedia for now. At least there people respect your edits ;)
Source(s): http://www.illogicopedia.org/
