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Don't put all your eggs in one Wikipedia
- brownbat 11y ago> I recently tried creating a page for Swathanthra Malayalam Computing ... it was soon deleted. Sounds typical. I used to be a frequent contributor. I started a few stubs that later became large articles, and helped research a few more established articles. Felt great. Nowadays, though, it's like a gold rush happened, everyone's staked out their territory. You edit a page, you get a lot more pushback. You create a new page, marked for speedy deletion. I don't bother editing very often anymore, sometimes I just comment on pages. I guess I'm part of the trend: [0] http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how-wikipedia-is-running-out-of-admins/259829/ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-char... [1] http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/SummaryEN.htm [2] http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-decline-of-wikipedia/ http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520446/the-dec...