Ever contributed to Wikipedia?

Post Reply New Topic

Have you ever edited an article on Wikipedia? Have you ever STARTED one? Is there anything else you can do on Wikipedia that you've done ?
I have editex, once started an article on a subject, but never got it up and lost track of the subject.

_________________
Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Yes, I do. I mostly make minor edits here and there, but some of them I get met with rollbacks out of disagreements. UGH.

No, but I've been tempted to correct the misspellings of people's names. One time, I noticed they had spelled the name of a certain runner completely wrong. That I know the right spelling makes me a bit weird, because very few people are interested in that sort of thing.

From about 2006 until about 2013 when I got diagnosed I was a regular contributor to a core set of articles. I am far from a good writer but but my Wikipedia days made a lot less bad.

I corrected the history of both the washing machine and washer-dryer combination(one unit that does both, not a stacked set of machines), they previously credited GE, but Bendix Home Appliances, A division of AVCO(Aviation Corporation) invented both years before GE. I knew that from being a collector and being on a forum, but the trouble was finding an academic source, the incorrect info surprisingly was sourced. Eventually I found one, though. GE's first washer was in 1947, Bendix in 1937, Bendix's combo was in 1953, or late '52. GE didn't have one(a rather cookie cutter effort) until a few years later. Bendix(by then known as Philco-Bendix c.1957) killed off their combo in 1968, GE in 1973. If anyone wants to know more, ask me, and I will create a dedicated thread.

No, I haven't.

I've seen some misspellings and just plain inaccurate info, but I haven't bothered to go through the process of signing up and deal with it.

Neither have I. It's just a waste of time.

I have contributed but it was a bit of a waste of time. Generally moderators volunteer to become moderators for their pet subjects and they tend to reject anything at variance with their core beliefs.

I correct factual errors and add the necessary citations. I also remove superlatives, inflammatory adjectives, and outright lies -- again, always with the necessary citations.

Nope. Never even thought about doing so. But now however I might edit the Wrong Planet page and enter that EzraS is its 347th most valuable member.