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Catshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 08:55 PM
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Have you edited a Wikipedia entry?
It is difficult to do? How do you change an entry someone made that is in error?
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 08:57 PM
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1. 1) Sign up. 2) Change the entry.
Edited on Sat Feb-07-09 08:59 PM by BlooInBloo
EDIT: Note that if you're dealing with a controversial article, something like this might be of use: http://www.technologyreview.com/web/22076/?a=f
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 08:58 PM
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2. If you are skilled in html it is easy as pie
I, on the other hand, am not skilled in html. I edited a paragraph and it took me an hour :(
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 10:03 PM
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3. So long ago that I don't even remember what article. I do recall is was
pretty easy, mostly a matter of signing up and adding some comment/change to the existing entry. Took maybe 15 minutes.

mark
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 10:42 PM
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4. Yes I have
I changed a photo and edited some rather nasty and untrue comments about a friend of mine. Keeping my fingers crossed I don't have to do it again, as I don't remember my username and password. But if memory serves it was easy to do.
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Davis_X_Machina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 10:45 PM
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5. Did it last week...
...updating a town's entry to mention the largest local employer's shedding 600 workers.
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Lyric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-09 11:01 PM
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6. Yep. I've been an occasional editor for years.
Most recently I fixed some anti-Semitic hate graffiti that someone had inserted into the article about human sacrifices--some bullshit about how Jews kill Christian babies and drink their blood.

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