@theresnotime 100% votes, wikieditors sweep
Edit: welp that fell

@theresnotime@wikis.world I fixed a typo ​:blobfoxfloofcute:​

@theresnotime I cannot lie, I've touched a few minor things anonymously

@theresnotime The only edits I really made were correcting some chemical formulae on wiki pages of minerals. Sometimes I feel like I should get more involved in editing Wikipedia, though.

@theresnotime I remember the days when nobody was logging in to make edits... good times 😹

@theresnotime@wikis.world My one Wikipedia claim to fame is editing a small error in the address calculation of an instruction for an obscure CPU

@theresnotime it took me a bit of time to realize that "edit" means more than just "fix typos and obvious incorrect/outdated information". I've had it similarly with open source, but it took me less time.

but yeah, realizing that even stuff like "this language version does not indicate she's a corrupt [redacted]" is something I *can* and even *should* fix *myself*, kinda blew my mind

@theresnotime Someone was *wrong* on the internet. I had to issue a correction :blobcatTriumph:

@theresnotime Only to fix obvious minor grammar errors/typos, I don't have an account 🙈

@theresnotime I'm not ashamed to say I had a ton of edits in Animal Planet's Wikipedia page to correct and add show information 😳🤭

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Created a name clearification page once. Next level sh1t. 😎

@theresnotime I think I edited about two words into an article once, they probably got edited back within minutes.

@theresnotime I added a bit of pop culture trivia about a godawful place, that no one does or should ever care about. And now you've just reminded me there's another article that I need to amend.

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About 15 years ago I gave a presentation to some academic librarians on Wikipedia. They watched in horror as I edited a page (on table-tennis) in front of them.

@theresnotime Yes, but they almost always got reverted to something incorrect by someone who was guarding "their" entry, so I stopped.

@theresnotime Yes I have but it's useless.

@theresnotime yes but any edits got yeeted by a Swiss "Men's Rights Activist" including appeals and discussion of the edits.

Never bothered since then...

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Yes I have, but I won't touch it ever again.

@theresnotime And it always has been reverted by someone who took ownership of the article and doesn't allow any change whatsoever.

@theresnotime And @openstreetmap as well!
And gotten several fixes for local shared use paths in to google maps

:)

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editing wiki is down to who has the most time to hover over the page, and that has come to mean whatever intern has been paid to sit there and revert changes.

@theresnotime not directly (feels like I need to know a lot of rules and stuff beforehand 😕), but a Wikipedia editor once added a redirect based on info I said, it was from "Valley of the Whales" to "Wadi El Hitan", a translation of a very unique archeological site in Egypt 😊

@theresnotime Made an article once, got deleted, never tried again :blobCat_melt:

@theresnotime Tried but it was deleted because I updated the amount of employees according to the last official business report of the company I worked at and posted from a IP at this company. Therefore nobody trusted me telling the truth.

@theresnotime couple of my photos are still up too

Follow-up poll for those who have edited Wikipedia — was it a one-off thing, or do you edit semi-regularly still? (let's define semi-regularly as 1+ edits a month)

@theresnotime@wikis.world I want to contribute. But I feel like there isn't that much I could add. 😅

@theresnotime I have, a few times.
It was a waste of time; I'll never do it again.

@theresnotime yeah, I used to procrastinate in undergrad by doing major projects on articles about the Bahá’í Faith and Shia Islam, two interests of mine.

@theresnotime i have even created some pages back in 2003.

@theresnotime yes, most of the time to fix a typo or a wording or to add some missing sources to existing text.

@theresnotime I actually wrote an article, 20 years ago. They had next to no content.

It got ‘improved’ so much much over the following couple of years, as the terminally online professional internetters took over, I swore never to contribute again . And I haven’t .

@theresnotime Easiest poll answer ever!

Nearly 20 year veteran with over 10 000 edits.

@theresnotime hahahaha this is hilarious

@theresnotime I sure have once, some nuances that I know as fact through my work.
Someone sent me a message asking to cite sources to stealthy edits like this. I have absolutely no idea how to reply to them or how to send messages to others, I did my damnest to google/figure it out but according to my observations, that's not a thing on Wikipedia...
I am spooked and will probably never edit again.

@theresnotime Small edits but yes

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Apparently I’m seven years into a ten year ban from editing Wikipedia, I have no idea why.
The person’s page I allegedly edited, I’ve never heard of.
Not that it bothers me, as I have no intention of editing anything, but I am curious as to what I am meant to of done.

@theresnotime I got banned for edit warring in the article on william henry harrison

@theresnotime By boosting this, I participate in biaising the results towards the "yes" 😋

@theresnotime Yes, but kinda gave up once the deletionists started blowing away genuinely useful articles that I had contributed to.

@theresnotime I reallly should make an account. There's an error on the page on Theory X, theorized by Parfit. It's such a tiny area that it doesn't matter, but it bugs me as I did my Masters on the subject.

@theresnotime No, and sadly, the reason I haven't is that the people I know personally who have done a lot of Wikipedia editing were super-pedantic knobs about it. NOT saying this is true of everyone who contributes, but it made me very much not want to get involved.

@theresnotime wrote some articles in the very beginning but they have all been deleted within some minutes because they were not relevant. So I never tried again and even avoid to link to wikipedia 🤷‍♀️

@theresnotime I added the rust hello world example to my language's Hello World wikipedia page

@theresnotime No but I created a tvtropes page 😅

@theresnotime Yes, but don not work.

@theresnotime I have. But after some silly edit wars I won't do it any more. There are better ways to spend time and spread knowledge.

@theresnotime Have tried a few times, but Wikipedia really does not want me to have edited it so the changes keep getting reverted. Nothing malicious, just them trying not to have up-to-date info on recently happened things (like Queen Elizabeth dying etc).

@theresnotime no way, I do not edit Wikipedia. I tried a couple times long ago but there was a degree of specialty process and etiquette I didn't understand which made me feel like I was getting in trouble or doing something wrong. I'm not smart enough to make edits important enough to learn all the processes and be a part of the community in a meaningful way, so I just don't touch the edit button

@theresnotime Just to be clear, it was MY #Wikipedia page that I edited.
I don't try editing other people's pages.
I'm just qualifying my vote, not judging you or anyone else...unless they try editing my page.
Thank you for the Poll.☺️
☮️💜☯️♾️🎵🎶🎶🎵

@theresnotime I edited intensively for around 10 years, then stopped (don't know how to fit that into your second poll 🙂 ). Happy to tell you more if needed.

@theresnotime, I rewrote and added historical material to the wiki for the small town where I was born.

@theresnotime I’ve made thousands of edits and I have PTSD from it.

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living up to my screen name, I normally block anyone who asks boost for reach, as it seems obnoxious

but anyway
I gave up editing wikipedia cause so many articles are so freaking bad, and I got tired of re re correcting people (In a small area of DNA I am an actual expert)

esp annoying are the math article intros which are almost never written at a level correct for a general encylopedia, but are written for a college math graduate

@theresnotime@wikis.world Several times. Nothing big, but a new paragraph or two or updating older info with newer variants.

Diese zweigestreifte Quelljungfer musste nach der Eiablage erst mal abhängen und chillen.

#Libelle #Odonata
#iNaturalist ID: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/172023670

@theresnotime I added lot of info for Chess with different armies (the Ralph Betza chess variant) from my (at the time current) hyperfocus on chess variants and the website chessvariants.org
(chess variants with custom pieces are cool I wish I had someone to play them with)

@theresnotime for clarity, I edited my older brother's page for a joke. So not a grown up wiki edit.

@theresnotime I tried once, but was banned for "vandalism", all just because I tried to ADD to the article from a woman's perspective. Apparently women's viewpoints are not welcome on there.

@theresnotime Tend to poke at random musician pages when I find them out of date (like only listing albums as of 2005 or something like that) and also have been known to do minor grammar changes just because 🙂

@theresnotime Yes, I tried. I gave up after the umpteenth time someone insisted on including Scientology propaganda in psych articles while insisting that I knew nothing about medicine.

@theresnotime I got excited about Wikidata a while back and started to contribute. Suddenly I was “globally locked”. No idea why. That was that.

@theresnotime Oh yes, I have. And I'm sure I'll never do it again.

@theresnotime many years ago, about 15? maybe, i edited a few pages and attempted to start a page. i was met with such fierce, furious resistance from a cohort of established male community members that i gave up and never tried again.

@theresnotime But I wont any more since the grognards who shadow run it like an 18th century Chinese Imperial Harem require learning a silo'd and narrow skill I have better things to do than learn

@theresnotime I could not be trusted with editing on Wikipedia lmao

@theresnotime I've tried, but I've gotten bounced every time, so I stopped bothering with it.

@theresnotime I actually reverted some vandalisms whenever I found them. Not much, but everything helps.

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Knowing the typical fedi clientele, I am entirely unsurprised at these results 😂

FWIW, I've edited Wikipedia a grand total of once. It was an incorrect formula for something on an obscure page, I can't remember exactly. Not something to cause an edit war!

@theresnotime Literally one edit, about the details about C-41 film development.

On a page I'm fairly certain gets next to 0 views because it's like 5 layers deep into film development.

@theresnotime got banned from editing because I edited over (read: corrected) a trusted editor's work with a non-english source about a non-english topic so that it said the same as the non-english article

@theresnotime once I spoiled myself while reading the synopsis of a Ghibli film (not the English page) so I rephrased the paragraph, removing the spoiler and retaining the information.
I'd like to think of this as my most honorable act, since I saved someone else the headache from learning a critical moment of the film. 😂

@theresnotime@wikis.world that's a pretty close 3:2 ratio so far

@theresnotime@wikis.world i am banned from editing wikipedia because i tried to spread misinfo

@theresnotime I created two articles for a pop-punk band about their EPs and they got removed some some time later 😔 (I did find original sources and formatted then properly. IDK what happened since they had been up for a few years after I posted them)

But I mostly do spelling and grammar anyway

@theresnotime Does editing the page for my local representative count? He was the founder of the charter school I attended and I added some pertinent information from that time. Like when he made me clean up the local dump site behind the school. I had to clean up used cat litter.
He has a reputation locally for being a slumlord

@theresnotime I greatly dislike the site. I try not to use it except as a stepping stone. It upsets me that people treat it as equal to a fact-checked reference source. But I have edited it once or twice in the last couple of decades. Not more than that, though.

@theresnotime I did edit and even create new articles in the early days, like 15 years ago. Have stopped a long time ago though.