Have you ever edited a Wikipedia entry?

I don’t think I’ve ever edited an entry, but I did create a page for myself several times. It was usually deleted literally within seconds.

I was also bored four or five summers ago, and I spent many hilarious nights trolling conservapedia.com rather extensively. Many of my edits, additions, and revisions are still there, too. They never really caught on.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard You don’t need to troll that site. Conservapedia is hilarious as-is.

I edit the philosophy articles from time to time. I avoid the talk pages, however, as the level of discourse there is often only slightly higher than a YouTube comments section.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Poe’s law.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard… Wow. What a bunch of rednecks and conspiracy theorists!

@SavoirFaire I actually tried to invalidate Poe’s law by being as extreme as possible. I eventually wound up having several regular editors on there telling me to tone down my rhetoric. I call that a trolling success.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard Well done, sir. Well done.

I fucked around on Encyclopedia Dramatica and made fun of Final Fantasy and Calvin and Hobbes. (which I both love to death) Those entries are still there, so I guess I was doin it rite.

But hanging around on there too much, even I thought they had no class. Me!

Yes, I regularly participate in wikipedia. My specialty is checking/verifying the references. I rarely edit the actual written content.

I have a couple of times. One page that listed the names of Greek gods had some names misspelled, confusing the Roman (our) letter H with what looks like the same character in the Greek alphabet, which is actually a letter we’d read as an E.

When I went back a day or so later to see if my changes had remained, I saw that someone had vandalized the page in a very juvenile fashion, with a paragraph of vulgarity in place of the one describing the Greek pantheon. I started to flag it for an editor, and before I even finished writing my request, the page was reverted. Those vandalism watchdogs were fast.

WIkipedia no, but wikitionary, yes. I added the word visucentric. (focused on the elements of vision… designed for maximizing visual elements, etc)

Is that a word you made up @linguaphile? Would think it would be more like “visocentric”.... viso instead of visu?

@Dutchess_III Ahm… no. It was coined around 1996. It’s not a word I made up, but a word that is actually in use. I’ve seen it used in magazines and commentaries without the hyphen included in the above article.

I had a conversation with a representative Merriam-Webster about why it wasn’t in the dictionary and she said that it has to have a certain number of usage frequencies a year and in print before it will be put in Merriam Webster. It’s not widespread, but it’s a word I think deserves more attention.

I wrote and maintained the wis.dm article, back when it still existed. I do the same now for the X Games pages.

Ivan….did you do something different with your hair? And where have you been, man!!