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7 December 2006 – Episode 8
Esperanza

Various article milestones, including the 1.5 million of en.wikipedia. Danny's new contest (a WikipediaWeekly exclusive right now). Citizendium update, standardizing warning templates, wikimarkup and  more.

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Andrew Lih is  currently researching a book about Wikipedia and  its community. He currently is  a regular host of the Wikipedia Weekly podcast.

Do you have  a great story about how you joined Wikipedia or  what you've done in the community? He's currently writing a book about Wikipedia, due to be published in Fall 2007. Please feel free to drop him a note and  tell him.

He formerly taught at the University of Hong Kong, where he studied participatory journalism in the form of blogs and  wikis, and  at Columbia University where he helped start the new media program. See the  and  university projects">Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects page for more  information. Sometimes he can be found at the Chinese Wikipedia.

Meetups

I've been to meetups with Wikipedians all over the world, including:

Classes

I was one of the first to use Wikipedia in the university setting for instruction (Summer 2003), and  CNN did a story about it. A  and  university projects">full list of projects can be found at the  and  university projects">Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects page. Latest work can be found here:

Creations

While he's started many articles and  pages on Wikipedia, here are  ones that are  notable, and  that he's (sort of) proud of creating:

Useful pages

This episode of The Simpsons always reminds of me of Wikipedia.

Quotes

"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia." -Vizzini, from The Princess Bride

Media

"Trying to determine what is  going on in the world by reading newspapers is  like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." ~Ben Hecht

"Everything you read in newspapers is  absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have  first-hand knowledge." ~Erwin Knoll

"The reporter is  the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is  expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story." Jim Bishop

"A good newspaper, I suppose, is  a nation talking to itself." ~Arthur Miller

"Journalists cover words and  delude themselves into thinking they have  committed journalism." ~Hedrick Smith

"With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day." ~Kingman Brewster, Jr.

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have  you hating the people who are  being oppressed, and  loving the people who are  doing the oppressing." ~Malcolm X

"The bigger the information media, the less  courage and  freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness." ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and  the People," television program, 1959

Others

"Fate is  just what you call it  when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over." Lois, from Malcolm in the Middle

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or  values or  religion but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non westerners never do." -Samuel P Huntington

"Democracy is  the worst form of government except for all those others that have  been tried." -Winston Churchill

"When you are  the good guys, you've got to act like the good guys." -Lindsey Graham, Republican Senator from South Carolina, on the reported abuses at Abu Ghraib prison

"Among all the things I'm going to tell you today about being a journalist, all you have  to remember is  two words: governments lie." - US journalist I.F. Stone, to journalism students

"Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is  given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy Wales, July 2004

Would Martin Luther King like Wikipedia?

Everybody can be great. Because anybody can serve. You don't have  to have  a college degree to serve. You don't have  to make your subject and  your verb agree to serve.... You don't have  to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Think Wikipedia is  too combative?

Maybe not as much as you think. See some statistics for how many actual NPOV disputes there are  in Wikipedia. User:Fuzheado/NPOV disputes (20 Sep 2003)

Shared watchlists

The idea of "shared watchlists" often comes up. You can do this type of thing by convention using normal pages, and  the "Related changes" option. Example created as an  experiment under my user page, but now a generally used page:

and the related list:

Experiences

Here's a running log of what I've experienced so far in setting 80 students loose on Wikipedia:

  • Namespaces. Some students were confused by the different namespaces, so one group created their entry as "Wikipedia:Victoria_Peak" and  wound up editing that for a while before moving to "Victoria_Peak"
  • Plagiarism. One student mistakenly thought that breaking one Wikipedia entry into two was 'plagiarism' because she was copying the information onto another page. I had to convince her that because it  was internal to Wikipedia, it  was like rearranging furniture inside your home, not stealing someone else's sofa. So to speak.
  • Copying. Many had to adjust to what they were used to doing - copying. Some students lifted entire sections from tourism or  government Web sites. Showing the power of collaborative editing, Wikipedians struck them out, or  removed copyrighted photos. Good for Wikipedians. Students were warned before the project and  were warned sternly once again  -- no material can be copied into Wikipedia without permission. The practice still persists, however.
  • Moving around. Changing names of entries confused some, but they got it  eventually. The Apple Daily was the original entry, and  was changed to Apple Daily. Discussion ensued on the boards, until people realized what happened, and  it was resolved.
  • Writing style. Folks were unaccustomed to using disinterested, third person, NPOV style. Having been first-person writers most of their lives, most used "I" and  "we," as well as the imperative, "Let us talk about the car industry..." Because the content was about something they knew and  loved - Hong Kong - many took up the role of cheerleader, and  could not resist using phrases such as "the most beautiful" or  "the excellent efficiency." I welcome theories to help explain this tendency. Some have  said Chinese language speakers tend to the more  flowery and  expressive terminology.
  • Enthusiasm. Students got enthusiastic after a critical mass of information was put into their entries. They started building on each others' work and  picked up momentum on their progress. Some got quite carried away with photos, like on the MTR article.

Know when to finish

畫蛇添足 (pinyin: hua4 she2 tian1 zu2) Literally: Adding legs when painting a snake. Moral: Don't ruin your work by unnecessary additions

List_of_Chinese_proverbs

Templates

{{fairuse}} - {{stub}} - {{disambig}} - {{vfd}} - {{spoiler}} - {{NPOV}} - {{Disputed}} - {{protected}} - {{delete}} - {{copyvio2}} - Thanks for experimenting with Wikipedia. Your test worked, and  has now been removed. Please use [[Wikipedia:Sandbox]] for any other tests you want to do, since testing material in articles will normally be removed quickly. Please see the [[Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers|welcome page]] if you would like to learn more  about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.

For images

[[image:Octopus card.jpg|thumb|250px|An Octopus Card, used in Hong Kong]]

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