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Jules she/herUK #Wikipedians with more status and experience than me, I just tried to make a page for #HannahSpencer the #GreenParty candidate for the #GortonAndDenton byelection only to find that someone had got there before me and it had been deleted due to not meeting the threshold for relevance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Hannah_Spencer Could someone with a bit more Wikipedia clout than me dispute this please? Given the significance of the byelection and the fact that the majority of the other candidates have profiles
When the radio transmits human words, it does indicate the radio understands.
Wikipedia does not understand. #Wikipedians understand.
When an LLM summarizes a Wikipedia article it demonstrates how well those Wikipedians understood the topic(s).
MaLy@Katika Immer derselbe Grund für diese Löschungsanträge bei Artikeln über Frauen* ist angeblich fehlende Relevanz.
Hab zwar bisher noch nie Deinen Namen gehört aber Deine Forschungs- und Diskussionsbeiträge - deren Inhalte ich durchaus mitbekommen habe - sind absolut relevant und somit auch der entsprechende Wikipedia-Artikel!
@wikipedia
#Wikipedia #WikipediaFoundation #Wikipedians #wikipedianshoutout #frauen
Doc Edward Morbius ⭕@timbray #OnTheMedia's classic 2006 episode, "Prime Number", addresses this point beautifully, mostly related to news and media, though #Wikipedia and #Wikipedians should take note.
OTM cites #CarlBialik, then writing for the WSJ (he's since worked at FiveThirtyEight and is now at Yelp ... per Wikipedia):
An interesting phenomenon of these numbers is that they'll often be cited to an agency or some government body, and then a study will pick it up, and then the press will repeat it from that study. And then once it appears in the press, public officials will repeat it again, and now it's become an official number.
https://www.wnyc.org/story/128722-prime-number/ (audio and transcript).
Prime Number | On the Media | WNYC
Numbers justify fear. 50,000 abducted children, for example, or 50,000 predators prowling for children online. That last figure appeared in a recent introduction for NBC’s “Dateline.” And last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cited Dateline’s number. But where did it come from? So far as statistics go, it turns out that 50,000 is something of a Goldilocks number in the media – not too big and not too small, but for scaring the public - just right.
Amgine#Wikipedia edit: An interesting typo in EN.WP's [Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives#The Monitor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Centre_for_Policy_Alternatives#The_Monitor)
The typo is 'complies', which should be 'compiles'.
However, it is a perfectly correct word, and so will not be detected by spelling algorithms. Like rather a few other easy typos. Someone may want to define some logic to check this one, too.
Hey English #Wikipedia / #Wikipedians : how is it that the lead of a controversial political person - Yves Engler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Engler - contains misinformation which is documented in the article and cited? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yves_Engler#cite_note-11
csAny #Wikipedians know why the entry on the Crimean War is messed up in the way it displays. Looks like the infobox might need some tweaking, but I'm not sure. Can this be cleaned up, or does it need to just be reverted to a last known good version? #Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War
Exactly. Also sad that #Wikipedians cannot seem to grasp what the #Wikinews project is for.
Wikipedia is now my best internet search engine, the default in my browser.
But for my purposes, finding an article or topic in one or another language of Wikipedia will usually lead me to an appropriate url within 3 clicks - often the exact citation, person, or company I for which was looking.
Otherwise I fall back on mojeek.com, and it's a bit rough still.
MitaHey friends who use Wikidata! I have a Wikidata Query for you:
Would you also like to have intervener added as a property?
" #Incrementalism is a philosophy held by #Wikipedians who believe that with the #IncrementalGrowth in the number of Wikipedia articles over time, items which were once deemed to be insufficiently #notable to have articles may eventually prove notable enough for an entry."