Have you ever edited a Wikipedia page?

[Squarehard]

I think I've only ever edited a wikipedia page once, and it was because the information was so poorly written, that I felt compelled to re-write it, and with the correct information.

Have you ever felt the need to edit a wikipedia page, whether it's to add updated information, or correct something?

 

[Whitemex]

Yes. But to fuck around.

 

[Pororoka]

I do it frequently on the spanish Wikipedia on slow days at my job, sometimes because there is a lot of vandalism and mainly for some articles that are direct machine translations of other pages.

 

[Zolbrod]

Yeah, but only to fix grammar and spelling mistakes.

 

[Wulfric]

Yes, only a few paragraphs on PSP emulation.

 

[astro]

Yes. Usually just cleaning up sentence structure and wording.

 

[NPVinny]

Yeah, but only to fix grammar and spelling mistakes.

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Yep, this is the majority of my edits as well.

 

[Kevers]

As a joke once.

 

[Dr. Monkey]

I add sources at times, and context. Once I had an edit war on the page for hamburgers though because my boss kept changing it to add pork burgers and I kept deleting her terrible opinions.

 

[AoM]

Yeah, went and made a small edit, but then that screwed up the references section. >_>

Took a little bit to figure out, but eventually got it fixed.

 

[Princess Viola]

Yeah, but most of my edits are just stuff like fixing grammar or spelling errors, fixing broken templates (mostly on pages that won't get a lot of traffic), and occasionally removing vandalism or other nonsense people have added to pages.

Seriously sometimes low-traffic pages have a lot of bizarre nonsense on them, I don't even mean like vandalism but like clearly someone who doesn't know how Wikipedia works, like a message to a TV channel requesting that they air some show they used to watch as a kid on the article listing the shows aired by that channel.

 

[TheSkullPrince]

Never have.

Maybe it's because I'm naive, but I'm surprised by the poll results.

 

[skullmuffins]

Yeah, mostly reverting vandalism or fixing minor grammatical or phrasing issues. The most substantial (I guess) edit I made was a 2006 upload of a photo I took of my university's library which is used to this day on various pages related to the university. Honestly the photo was low-res and grainy even for its time (iirc I had the camera settings fucked up but didn't realize it until later) but it does look pretty good in the thumbnail.

 

[Glasgow Mega-Snake]

Yeah but only small things like spelling, correcting some details, formatting. Nothing substantial

As a teen I tried to write some articles at one of those wikipedia parody pages that used to be popular. Found them again recently and they're as awful as I expected. 15-year-old me was terribly unfunny...

 

[Gaardus]

Mostly vandalism repairs, but I recall filling out the Pokemon Trading Figure Game a bit, too. Nothing major.

 

[TissueBox]

Part of my original paragraph on the The Last of Us' top page prefix from 2013 remains there to this day.

I used to be a maniac about wiki proofreading. And parlance. And media contribs. *points to veteran medals*

Hohohoh!!

I don't keep up with the community anymore but a few fun, fleeting subjects of rapport were encountered therein. ^^" Miss y'all!!

 

[Jon Carter]

Once, because the page was too biased.

 

[eXistor]

Technically, but only to correct spelling errors. Really just a few times.

 

[Riversands]

Yes. And i usually add some misinformation and a bit of hoax to stir things, but i usually do it in non obvious way

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secret_Life_of_Pets

Thats one of my most notorious wiki edit that i do. Read the plot section. It had my hands on it

 

[Tezz]

I actually added some information after reading the Epic of Gilgamesh. With citations and everything.

 

[ZackieChan]

Fixed some terrible grammar on the entry for "Quesadilla"

Edit: you guys making joke edits are hilarious

 

[Chikor]

Yeah, I actually used to do quite a bit of page translations, but the community wasn't great so I only do it if I stumble across some easily fixable mistake these days.

 

[Eila]

I tried to make my own wiki page when I was like 12. That count?

 

[texhnolyze]

Yeah, I've even made a few from scratch. It's a small part of my job, for the clients.

 

[BAW]

Only once, just to correct a typo. I was too OCD to just leave it like that.

 

[CallMeShaft]

Just once, back when neo-nazis were messing with Era's wiki page. A few of us were adding stuff to that article about how petty those nazis were. Eventually that article would be altered back to what it originally was and locked, making it harder for random individuals to edit.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/somebody-vandalized-the-resetera-wikipedia-page.65021/

 

[Strike]

I did it once. Not sure the page is still there.

 

[Axe]

I used to be a regular contributor about a decade ago with thousands of edits. I got involved with various projects and initiatives, such as redesigns and even weighed in on some of bigger changes to the site. It was fun.

Ultimately though, there was just too much petty drama to deal with. The cabal of power users drove me and others away from the site with their increasingly hostile behaviour and attempts at locking down control for themselves. Many of these people weren't and presumably still aren't interested in actually collaborating, only in getting their own way.

It wasn't worth the stress, and luckily these days there are lots of smaller more focused wikis for various topics which I prefer to contribute to instead.

 

[NottJim]

Yes. But to fuck around.

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Yes, but only to undo vandalism.

😒

 

[Untzillatx]

I have, and do frequently. I have created a bunch of small pages from scratch too, mostly on topics that interest me (geography, history)

 

[Mivey]

Occasionally, for small fixes, like spelling and grammar.

 

[uzipukki]

Yeah. I did one for umm, it was over on gaf but it was a thread about someone being an ass (US senator or something along those lines) and I edited his page to show what he did.

 

[Acorn]

Nah, I did used to edit giant bombs wiki when they had quests and stuff on there.

 

[Z-oo31]

Yes, mostly to correct weird sentences, or to add a sentence.

Never a paragraph or full article though.

 

[shaneo632]

Back in the wild west days when everyone vandalised pages for kicks, yeah.

 

[Blue Lou]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd's_pie

Look at this, two different pies in one article. It's disgraceful.

 

[julia crawford]

Only for vandalism, nothing actually accurate.

 

[Deleted member 3093]

I do it for a hobby, I have like almost 50,000 edits lol

 

[NecroTechno]

Sometimes I'll jump on and work through their backlog of "to be fixed" pages. Makes me feel good.

 

[Kwigo]

I once was asked to update the wikipedia page of a company I worked for. All they wanted was ro update the number of employees worldwide, which jumped from 600 to 700 in about 2 years.

I tried it about 5 times, everytime some random asshole changed it back.

Never touched another wikipedia entry since then.

 

[Galkinator]

Technically... yes.
I was young and it was just for trolling though.

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

No, mostly because most of the stuff I've seen on Wikipedia (German and English) seems OK already. No need to muck around.
Other than that, it seems too much effort. Not because of the technical side but the social / human side.

 

[PJV3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd's_pie

Look at this, two different pies in one article. It's disgraceful.

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i thought there was a grand council of internet elders to prevent this kind of travesty, that's like calling plum crumble an apple pie.

 

[Mekanos]

At one point the Danny Phantom episode list had all the airdates wrong (I think they went by the iTunes dates?). I went in and corrected all of them, being a diehard fan back in the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Danny_Phantom_episodes

 

[Khaos Prime]

I have before. And I even created a page myself.

 

[Bitmap Frogs]

I might have vandalised a few pages in the past...

 

[Platy]

Yes
I even created a page for a gamedev friend

 

[Joni]

Yes, but only if there was something small wrong like formatting.

 

[Shaymin]

I once added a note to the page for The Dead Kennedys declaring them the largest band in history as a goof.

I've also fixed a few references on baseball pages because there's a former prominent executive named Bobby Brown and all the links referred to the singer.

 

[Threekola Miroswish]