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<center><font size="5.0">'''S Marshall'''</font></br>uses his '''[[Name|real name]]''' on Wikipedia.</center></div> |
<center><font size="5.0">'''S Marshall'''</font></br>uses his '''[[Name|real name]]''' on Wikipedia.</center></div> |
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| caption = [[United Kingdom|British]] Wikipedian<br/><br/>'''Fields'''<br/>[[History|Historian]], [[Translation|translator]], [[Biography|biographer]]<br/><br/> |
| caption = [[United Kingdom|British]] Wikipedian<br/><br/>'''Fields'''<br/>[[History|Historian]], [[Translation|translator]], [[Biography|biographer]]<br/><br/> |
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'''Caveat lector.''' This is the lesson of this site:- Don't trust what you read. You're on [[Wikipedia]], which is by an order of magnitude the largest collection of information ever gathered in one place. It's also the largest collection of lies. Some are malicious lies, some are genuine misunderstandings, some are half-truths, and some are the lies that everyone believes—the theories that tomorrow's scientists will refute. Read, learn, but don't trust.<p>The link to the [[Wikipedia:General disclaimer|disclaimer]] that's at the bottom of each page should be at the top. In bold. In huge font. In flashing red text so you can't possibly miss it. '''Caveat lector'''.<p>The way Wikipedians think can be summed up like this: (1) [[WP:IAR|No rule is binding]]; (2) [[WP:CONSENSUS#Consensus can change|No decision is final]]; and (3) [[WP:Clean start|All misbehaviour is forgiven]]. There are exceptions to all these but they're rare. Almost everyone who leaves the project does so of their own accord, and usually out of frustration. It follows that everyone who's here is either new, or very patient, or will be gone soon enough.<p>Read [[Wikipedia:Advice for parents|this]] and [[Wikipedia:Child protection|this]]. And then, if you aren't of a sensitive disposition, think about all the reasons why Wikipedia's attractive to children (as readers or as editors). If you can do that without a small shudder, then you probably don't exactly have an overactive imagination. |
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{{bquote|''"You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts."''<small>—[[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]</small>}} |
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{{bquote|''"Anti-intellectualism [is the] notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."''<small>—[[Isaac Asimov]]</small>}} |
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{{bquote|''"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."''<small>—Grey's law.</small>}} |
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''I've just discovered that I'm not receiving emails from Wikipedia because I use Yahoo and, well, [https://web.archive.org/web/20160728051558/https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN24050.html this]. I do want to talk to editors, but you'll just have to use my talk page I'm afraid.'' |
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Hi, I'm Stuart Marshall. I live in [[Cambridgeshire]] in [[England]] (but am originally from [[Hertfordshire]]). I have varied interests on Wikipedia; look for me in unlikely places! |
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I edited occasionally as an IP in 2004 and 2005, and I registered this account in 2006, but was only sporadically active until 2008 or so. In 2009 I nominated two people for adminship: [[User:Fences and windows]] and [[User:LinguistAtLarge]]. Although they both seem to have worked out rather well, I've never nominated anyone since. |
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It's {{#time: H:i}} on '''{{#time: j F Y}}'''. |
It's {{#time: H:i}} on '''{{#time: j F Y}}'''. |
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<div class="infobox" style="width:40%; background-color: #D1EEEE; margin: 0.5em; padding: 0.5em; float:right;"><center>'''[[WP:FAMILY]]'''</center>A family member of mine edits from my IP address. This is [[User:Witt E Pseudonym]].</div> |
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We're here to write an online compendium of knowledge ({{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Traditional English: encyclopaedia; {{flagicon|United States}} Simplified English: encyclopedia), and to share it with everyone in the world in freely-reusable format without cost. That's a profound thing to do. |
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Historically, what people who had knowledge did was to monetize it. In the past couple of decades, Wikipedia, together with other more reliable, but less broad, knowledge-sharing initiatives driven by universities and libraries, have started to subvert that monetization. We're slowly but I think importantly disrupting the knowledge economy. |
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Editors get various benefits from contributing, the most important of which is learning the right kind of skepticism. We learn to analyze sources. When I started contributing to Wikipedia, early during the rise of social media, I didn't know how important the right kind of skepticism would become. Editing Wikipedia over the years has made me ''brighter'', which is an outcome that the person I barely remember any more, S Marshall in his thirties, wouldn't have expected for a moment. But it's true. Now that I can find the right information in the right source more quickly and surely, I make better decisions, faster, than I did in the past. |
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Wikipedia is of course deeply flawed and heavily distorted in many, many respects. But, whether you measure it in terms of the labour that went into it, or its importance to our culture, it's reasonable to call it the first Information Age Wonder of the World. |
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Latest revision as of 11:24, 8 April 2024
uses his real name on Wikipedia.
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"You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts."—Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"Anti-intellectualism [is the] notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."—Isaac Asimov
"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."—Grey's law.
I've just discovered that I'm not receiving emails from Wikipedia because I use Yahoo and, well, this. I do want to talk to editors, but you'll just have to use my talk page I'm afraid.
Hi, I'm Stuart Marshall. I live in Cambridgeshire in England (but am originally from Hertfordshire). I have varied interests on Wikipedia; look for me in unlikely places!
I edited occasionally as an IP in 2004 and 2005, and I registered this account in 2006, but was only sporadically active until 2008 or so. In 2009 I nominated two people for adminship: User:Fences and windows and User:LinguistAtLarge. Although they both seem to have worked out rather well, I've never nominated anyone since.
It's 01:14 on 21 June 2024.
We're here to write an online compendium of knowledge ( Traditional English: encyclopaedia; Simplified English: encyclopedia), and to share it with everyone in the world in freely-reusable format without cost. That's a profound thing to do.
Historically, what people who had knowledge did was to monetize it. In the past couple of decades, Wikipedia, together with other more reliable, but less broad, knowledge-sharing initiatives driven by universities and libraries, have started to subvert that monetization. We're slowly but I think importantly disrupting the knowledge economy.
Editors get various benefits from contributing, the most important of which is learning the right kind of skepticism. We learn to analyze sources. When I started contributing to Wikipedia, early during the rise of social media, I didn't know how important the right kind of skepticism would become. Editing Wikipedia over the years has made me brighter, which is an outcome that the person I barely remember any more, S Marshall in his thirties, wouldn't have expected for a moment. But it's true. Now that I can find the right information in the right source more quickly and surely, I make better decisions, faster, than I did in the past.
Wikipedia is of course deeply flawed and heavily distorted in many, many respects. But, whether you measure it in terms of the labour that went into it, or its importance to our culture, it's reasonable to call it the first Information Age Wonder of the World.
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