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- "And when people did help they were given a flattering name. They weren’t called “Wikipedia’s little helpers,” they were called “editors.” It was like a giant community leaf-raking project in which everyone was called a groundskeeper. Some brought very fancy professional metal rakes, or even back-mounted leaf-blowing systems, and some were just kids thrashing away with the sides of their feet or stuffing handfuls in the pockets of their sweatshirts, but all the leaves they brought to the pile were appreciated. And the pile grew and everyone jumped up and down in it having a wonderful time. And it grew some more, and it became the biggest leaf pile anyone had ever seen anywhere, a world wonder."
— New York Review of Books, [1]
- "I call this Revolution 2.0. Revolution 2.0 is, is - I say that our revolution is like Wikipedia, OK? Everyone is contributing content. You don't know the names of the people contributing the content ... This is exactly what happened... Everyone was contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And that picture - no one is the hero in that picture."
— Activist Wael Ghonim
- "I'd like to say out loud that I really liked the atmosphere, that I enjoy more and more the simple fact that when we are together (chapters, WMF, affiliates, user groups, everyone) we feel like a movement, we act like a movement, we work and eat and drink and dance together and we argue much less than when we are online, typing in front of screens. I learned a lot about the ongoing transformation of the Wikimedia Foundation: many things are changing, they are working a lot, and very often we as affiliates do not notice these things. I saw many changes towards a better, more open and more collaborative Foundation, and I don't know many times I heard WMF employees asking for feedback and help."
— Aubrey, President of Wikimedia Italia, on Wikimedia-l after the 2015 Wikimedia conference in Berlin
- "What are we going to do tonight, Brain? Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try and take over the world."
- ""Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again."
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You should attempt to re-express your target’s position so clearly, vividly, and fairly that your target says, “Thanks, I wish I’d thought of putting it that way.
You should list any points of agreement (especially if they are not matters of general or widespread agreement).
You should mention anything you have learned from your target.
Only then are you permitted to say so much as a word of rebuttal or criticism.
-Daniel Dennett
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Wikipedia works because of how many people participate in creating and checking its pages. All changes go through a virtual filter--a gauntlet--of intelligent computer and human review. Thousands of people are constantly scouring new changes, and millions of readers keep an eye out for anything that seems off. Because of this process, research studies have shown that Wikipedia is just as accurate as traditional encyclopedias, but its errors get fixed faster. We are living proof of the coders' motto that "With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". In other words, many hands make anything possible! 1. Edit filter (automatic pattern rejection) 2. CBNG (machine-learning artificial neural network bot) 3. Huggle, Igloo, Lupin's filtered list (human assisted regex/badwords) 4. STiki (cbng residual feed, missed vandalism, subtle vandalism--human assisted metadata and pattern based review) 5. Article watchlists, selective page and topic monitoring by users 6. Pending changes, live version delay, reviewed by autoconfirmed users 7. Semi-protection, prevents non-autoconfirmed users from editing 8. Full protection, prevents non-admins from editing 9. Official readers, journalists and subjects of articles who report mistakes in the news (not good!) 10. Random readers, millions of individuals who fix errors when they come upon them |
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Requests for page protection
User:Ocaasi/HeaderAdministrator instructions </noinclude>Current requests for increase in protection levelPlace requests for new or upgrading pending changes, semi-protection, full protection, move protection, create protection, template editor protection, or upload protection at the BOTTOM of this section. Check the rolling archive of fulfilled and denied requests or, failing that, the page history if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here. Last Rites (Once Upon a Time)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. 2601:1C0:4901:2191:A868:4C49:DC23:83FC (talk) 01:29, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
2017 NASCAR Cup Series
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Anonymous editors are adding incorrect information about race titles and the series title sponsor. Vandalism is likely to continue for several months. – Nascar1996 (talk • cont) 01:30, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Skate punk
Semi-protection: High level of persistent IP vandalism. EuropeanSwedenAmerican2222 (talk) 01:52, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Future Now Tour
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. This page was under pending changes protection before it was expired. Need a protection until September. Musicpoplover12 (talk) 02:08, 12 May 2016 (UTC) WrestleMania 32
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Nickag989 (talk to me!) 08:03, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Rising Sun Flag
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 14:03, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Storm Model Management
Semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Multiple IPs repeatedly adding unsourced, non-notable and very dubious names to lists of models represented by Storm. Thomas.W talk 14:24, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Zara Larsson
Semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism. Linguist111 Please respond on the current page. Unless on my talk page, please ping me (type {{SUBST:ping|Linguist111}}) 14:47, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Superdelegate
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent sockpuppetry – A recently blocked user seems to be IP hopping to add contentious material. Dbrodbeck (talk) 15:11, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Perfect Hair (album)
Temporary semi-protection: Endless edit warring. TheAmazingPeanuts (talk) 16:44, 12 May 2016 (UTC) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Indefinite semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – It seems that there are two edit protections on this page, shouldn't it be just semi?. Laber□T 18:42, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Ousmane Dembélé
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Qed237 (talk) 19:44, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library
Short-term full protection. One editor is editwarring against at least two others to keep inserting brow-beating verbiage about the spelling with a comma in it, after not getting his way at a recent WP:RM at same article. This needs to be resolved in talk, not with tendentiousness and revtalk. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 19:46, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Heathrow Airport
Semi-protection and pending changes: Constant vandalism by user with varying IP addresses. Please do not put temporary protection on (or at least put temporary protection on for a few months) as once the protection expires the user starts vandalising the page again (based on other pages they have vandalised). Thanks. VG31-irl 19:53, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Semi-protection and pending changes: Same problem as Heathrow Airport (same vandal). VG31-irl 19:54, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Temporary semi-protection: High level of vandalism. VG31-irl 19:56, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Cochin International Airport
Semi-protection and pending changes: Same problem with vandalism of statistics section. VG31-irl 19:58, 12 May 2016 (UTC)
Rachel McAdams
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism.AjayTO (talk) 20:39, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Shot heard round the world
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 20:50, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Nick Cannon
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. AjayTO (talk) 20:51, 12 May 2016 (UTC) The Life (Fifth Harmony song)
Semi-protection: Persistent addition of unsourced or poorly sourced content. Chase (talk | contributions) 21:13, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Dez Bryant
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. I dream of horses (My talk page) (My edits) @ 21:14, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Practical joke
Semi-protection: High level of IP vandalism. DPM 22:05, 12 May 2016 (UTC) LacrosseTemporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Jdcomix (talk) 23:39, 12 May 2016 (UTC) WinsonTemporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism. Jdcomix (talk) 00:05, 13 May 2016 (UTC) XXXX syndrome
Semi-protection: Mobile IP editors are corrupting the redirect every few weeks or so, not sure why. Something similar happened at the target 48, XXXX until it was protected. 15.211.201.92 (talk) 00:49, 13 May 2016 (UTC) Big Brother Canada (season 4)
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent vandalism – Finale just took place. Poor edits and vandalism have been running wild and don't seem to be slowing down. Gloss 01:18, 13 May 2016 (UTC) Geometry Dash
Temporary semi-protection: Continued vandalism after recent release from protection period. 2601:1C0:4901:2191:F0D0:64DF:7F42:8C66 (talk) 02:22, 13 May 2016 (UTC) Radosław Sikorski
Semi-protection: A bit nutty IP inserting BLP violating material, removing sourced material (for same reason) on a BLP article.Volunteer Marek (talk) 03:34, 13 May 2016 (UTC) Masahiro Sakurai
Temporary semi-protection: Persistent IP vandalism falsely reporting death. --Cheesemeister (talk) 04:08, 13 May 2016 (UTC) Current requests for reduction in protection levelPlease post requests in this section for removing or reducing the protection level of a page if the protecting admin is inactive or you have already asked them.
Check here if you cannot find your request. Only recently answered requests are still listed here. Template:Test3a
Unprotection: Full unprotection. Template has been redirected per old TFD discussion to {{Uw-delete3}}. Page has only 1 single transclusion. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 01:28, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Template:Test3article
Unprotection: Full unprotection. Template has been redirected to {{Uw-test3}} per very old TfD discussion. — Andy W. (talk · ctb) 01:33, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Current requests for edits to a protected pageFurther information: Wikipedia:Edit requests
Ideally, requests should be made on the article talk page rather than here.
State of Palestine
Edit request since article and talk page under 30/500 protection Please add the infobox parameter "|demonym=" Palestinian as listed in List of adjectival and demonymic forms for countries and nations Turbolent2 (talk) 05:37, 12 May 2016 (UTC) Handled requestsA rolling archive of the last seven days of protection requests can be found at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection/Rolling archive. Protected edit requests
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1) I have contributed to Wikipedia since November 2001 and have personally authored 12 articles. 2) I have 70 pages on my watchlist and revert vandalism where I see that it has not yet been reverted. 3) In a number of cases, the vandal has made multiple edits and rather than having to undo all to return to an unvandalised copy of the article, it would be much more convenient to have rollback rights, so that I can revert in one fell swoop. 4) This request is prompted by the latest incident of vandalism on Charles Babbage, where the vandal made three successive attacks. Lacking time to manually revert all three, I had to leave it to another editor to revert. Having rollback rights would have made it easy for me to revert in the time available to me. Jmc (talk) 19:49, 10 May 2016 (UTC) User:Axelhovorka
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- "It worked and grew because it tapped into the heretofore unmarshaled energies of the uncredentialed. The thesis procrastinators, the history buffs, the passionate fans of the alternate universes of Garth Nix, Robotech, Half-Life, P.G. Wodehouse, Battlestar Galactica, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charles Dickens, or Ultraman—all those people who hoped that their years of collecting comics or reading novels or staring at TV screens hadn’t been a waste of time—would pour the fruits of their brains into Wikipedia, because Wikipedia added up to something. This wasn’t like writing reviews on Amazon, where you were just one of a million people urging a tiny opinion and a Listmania list onto the world—this was an effort to build something that made sense apart from one’s own opinion, something that helped the whole human cause roll forward."
— New York Review of Books, [2]
- "So there was this exhilarating sense of mission—of proving the greatness of the Internet through an unheard-of collaboration. Very smart people dropped other pursuits and spent days and weeks and sometimes years of their lives doing “stub dumps,” writing ancillary software, categorizing and linking topics, making and remaking and smoothing out articles—without getting any recognition except for the occasional congratulatory barnstar on their user page and the satisfaction of secret fame. Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism—a place for shy, learned people to deposit their trawls."
— New York Review of Books, [3]