Comments | 4_eyez: Wiki-holic

4_eyez

Wiki-holic

May 22, 2009 17:20

Over the last couple of years, I've become addicted to Wikipedia. Not just consulting it for answers about everything under the sun, but writing and editing articles as well. Yes, I am a Wikipedia editor. (And you can be one too ( Read more... )

wikipedia, education, geek, comics

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wiki dlasky May 25 2009, 06:22:34 UTC

Thanks for all you've contributed to Wikipedia! (Esp starting up Roger Hane's entry!) I rely on the site for much of my research and think it basically kicks the ass of most traditional encyclopedias.

Glad to hear it! anonymous June 2 2009, 17:14:59 UTC

Josh, I'm so glad to learn about your views and experience with Wikipedia; it helps me assuage my guilt. Wikipedia is frowned upon in my industry, but most of us secretly use it like crazy. Perhaps it's time to stand tall.

Re: Glad to hear it! 4_eyez June 2 2009, 17:20:40 UTC

Yeah! Glad to hear it. Let this be the catalyst which enables you to come out from behind your veil of anonymity!

alibi_shop June 6 2009, 03:35:47 UTC

I'm glad it's you and not me now! Heh heh. Seriously, I think Wikipedia is pretty great, even including all the infuriating process stuff that bitter ex-editors usually complain about. I would imagine your contributions are good ones -- actually, I'm pretty sure I know which one of those guys is you, so yeah, your contributions are good. (This was me.) Best of luck with keeping the habit under control; I pretty much stopped because without any boundaries on scope or subject matter, it could easily take over all of my time. (That, plus it was a little disturbing to get in the occasional super-intense arguments with crazy people. But those probably helped me deal with my temper better in the long run.)

Dammit, now I got sucked back in "just to check up on my old articles for a minute", aieee. Wow, there's still some of my text in there! Actually a couple of them are still almost all mine after like 4 years (Wertham, Rev. Billy, Crowhurst) - I guess it helps if it's something not everyone is looking at.

HOB! 4_eyez July 6 2009, 04:12:57 UTC

So cool to find another wiki-holic and have it be a real person that I actually know! I was looking through your comics articles and I definitely worked on some of those too (tho' not as extensively as you did): Gil Kane, Last Gasp, Joe Sacco, Seth (cartoonist), Rick Veitch for sure. I love it!

And of course I'm very impressed with the range of non-comics articles you created and worked on. That's real-world knowledge, whereas the huge bulk of crap I've worked on has been uber-geek trivia, when you get down to it.