densityJul 30, 2023

You can be the one to create the kbin page on wikipedia

Secure a place in history. Create the source material for hundreds of journalists, bloggers and shitposters writing about the downfall of reddit and the rise of the threadiverse. ([also missing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threadiverse)!)... #kbin #threadiverse #documentation #outreach #todo #wikipedia #free #promotion #talk #kbinMeta

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kbin

Show threadCandelestineJul 30, 2023

There wasn’t a lot of good source material to use a couple months ago. I’m unsure if that has changed, but it might’ve. It’s a prerequisite for writing a good wikipedia article, at any rate, as opposed to a shitty one.

You’re not allowed to write your own telling of the story on there, you have to copy other people’s and cite them. So a lot of other people need to have written on it, from a position of being a reliable source, before a quality wikipedia article can be written.

Though a small, mediocre article can be better than no article, if you’re giving someone a good framework to improve on later, as more sources develop.

Show threadFaceDeerJul 30, 2023
And also bear in mind that if someone writes a crappy enough kbin article now and it gets deleted, that's going to make it harder to get a kbin article started again in the future. I know that's not how it's supposed to work in principle but unfortunately it's how it works in practice.
Show threaddensityJul 30, 2023
@FaceDeer oh that's interesting. do you know why?
Show threadmagic_lobster_party
Wikipedia doesn’t like articles that are basically ads. Articles should be written from an unbiased standpoint using independent sources. If an article has been removed because it’s basically self promotion, then mods will be more careful about reopening it again.
Jul 30, 2023 at 8:13pmWeb
Show threadrodhlannJul 31, 2023
Might it be easier to start by adding mentions of Kbin on another Wikipedia article? I've read a bunch of news articles about Kbin and most of them aren't thorough enough to really base anything off of, or they're just wrong. Most people writing articles about Kbin don't seem to have used it enough to really give a full picture of its capabilities or history
Show threaddensityAug 2, 2023
@rodhlann I noticed the lack of kbin page when I was reading ActivityPub#Notable_implementations. All but kbin have links to separate pages and expect for WriteFreely, those pages all exist. Although as mentioned elsewhere the Pleroma page doesn't exist, that links to Fediverse#Fediverse_software_packages where kbin is also mentioned.
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