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[edit] Good and bad?
Can someone explain this line to me: "The number of Wikipedians (both good and bad) has grown to over 5 million" I'm curious as to why Wikipedians can be good and bad. I know users can have an agenda, but this just seems poorly worded. That'd be like saying "America has 300 million people, (both English speaking and non)." --Ilstuguy 15:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
- Removed. Richard001 09:15, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
- Productive and malignant wikipedians. It's emotive and effecient. --No Brainer 07:56, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Why do you contribute?
I am just asking any user of wikipedia why you contribute? If you are an avid contributor, what motivates you to be a volunteer to wikipedia?129.89.107.135 19:25, 17 October 2007 (UTC)english student
- Hi. I'm not sure this is the right place, but I'll reply anyway. I joined Wikipedia in October of 2006. Why I contribute starts with how I discovered Wikipedia. I was searching for lots of stuff on the Internet, back in the times when I was wanting to find a place with as much info as I need. Now, sometimes searching from a web engine didn't really help. I really needed a place where I can find all the info in one place, in one site. Now, a long time ago, I really wanted to know what E=MC2 meant, and most of all, in unit-specific terms. I tried searching for weeks, even months on the Internet, but for some reason I didn't find the answer I wanted. Now, a lot of the people I had on MSN had this robot called SmarterChild in their contact list. So, I searched for it on Ask.com, my favorite search engine at the time, and bingo — the link at the very top of the page was Wikipedia. As I explored it further, I realised that Wikipedia knew everything. I looked for E=MC2, and I found what I'd been looking for all that time, a unit specific measurement! As I searched for more and more stuff, I instantly became interested. Now, I knew I could edit, but I didn't want to yet. The first time I tried to edit, it warned that my IP adress would be shown. I looked into this problem further, on Wikipedia of course, and even wrote a short article about Wikipedia on my computer. Then, after months of searching, I decided that I might create an account after all. One of the articles I wanted to contribute to when I finally created an account, was "list of meteor showers". I discovered that redlinks meant that there was no article, and I think more of the articles needed to be made. However, who otehr than me would make them? I started taking the Wikiholic test, and I nearly got to a thousand points even before I created an account. I was worried that making an account would expose my IP adress to the developers, but then I decided: Someone told me that all websites collect your IP adress anyway, there are already so many contributors, and the small number of developers and checkusers that can see my IP adress is so small. So, I finally decided to get an account. Since I wanted to choose my name carefully, it took me around half an hour to choose my username and password. Then, I got to the editting. Finally, after a week or two, someone actually welcomed me. I mean, you get to collaborate with others about articles, and improve the most-visited web encyclopedia on the planet, what better (and more relatively useful, both for yourself and others) site is there? There have been a few mishaps and perhaps even stresful moments, but it's all worth it in the long run. So, a year later, here I am, with more than 2000 edits and over 10000 points on the Wikiholic test. I recently joined a few related sites, like interwikis and sister projects. I find that there isn't always much to do, but at least there's a place where I can spend my time (and not just waste it) when there is not much else to do. Make sure you understand that too much computer time can cause health issues, though. So, if you can join and make constructive edits, Wikipedia welcomes you. Help us build the greatest encyclopedia ever attempted! Hope this answers most of your question. Thanks. ~AH1(TCU) 20:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks194.116.199.218 (talk) 02:16, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
[edit] How many of us are there?
Special:Statistics says there are 5,773,899 account holders. We would be wasting our time trying to count the IPs, but I'd like to know roughly how many reasonably active users currently exist. There will of course be sock puppets, second accounts, one edit accounts, those that have been blocked, and numerous account holders that don't edit anymore and haven't done so for months or even years. But it would be good to have an estimate of how many real Wikipedians there are out there. Any suggestions for getting such information, or trying to make an estimate? Richard001 07:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
Actually, here's an idea: Go to Special:Listusers, which lists all account holders, then try to take a reasonably large sample. The problem is getting a random sample: it needs to be representative, and at the beginning we clearly have those who simply want to be at the start of the list. The same problem might occur at A, B etc, so start somewhere arbitrary is probably the best method. Then one would have to define what one meant by a genuine user, which is somewhat subjective. Say at least five edits and active in the last 2 months, for example. Finally, one would go through and check each user. If only a small fraction meet the criteria, however, there is a larger chance of random error, so a bigger sample size would be needed. Should be possible, though I haven't got time to do it myself now, and I have no idea what criteria I would use. Might be an interesting exercise though, and I'm sure people would be interested in the results. Richard001 07:56, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
- Ah, I seemed to miss this link: [1]. It's a bit out of date, but there seem to be about 40,000 active active users on en. in any given month, and about 4000 users who are making several edits each day. Hard to tell how many of the 40k are non-vandals, but it gives a reasonably good overview. Richard001 20:37, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Retiring a user name
Is it acceptable to "retire" a user name if one is upfront about it? What is the etiquette for doing so? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Muckblogger (talk • contribs) 14:59, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
- The best way is to have your account name changed at Wikipedia:Changing username. This will also preserve your edit history. Feezo (Talk) 11:20, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Question re corporate rather than individual user accounts
What is the policy about organisations having accounts? I had understood accounts were for individuals. Paul foord (talk) 10:44, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
- Wikipedia:Usernames#Sharing accounts is prohibited. More details at m:Role accounts and Wikipedia:BFAQ#Can my company have an account?. Feezo (Talk) 11:16, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] How do you become a Wikipedian?
Hi. I was just wondering, how do you become a Wikipedian? The page doesn't explain, and also, what exactly does a Wikipedian do? Thanks for replying! --Wiki: wikiPEDIA rules! 23:24, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
- By helping to write and edit Wikipedia! That's what we're here for. There's no offical "Wikipedian" designation. Some suggestions on ways you can help: Wikipedia:Community Portal#Todo. You might also want to take a look at our welcome page for newcomers — and by the way, you can auto-sign your talk page posts with four tildes, like this: ~~~~. Feezo (Talk) 04:45, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
- Create an account and start editing! That's how you become a Wikipedian. AdjustShift (talk) 16:18, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Groups of Wikipedians in other Social Networks
Hi fellow Wikipedians! I created a group for people like y'all on LinkedIn. Everybody who is there yet or plans to be in forementioned social network is invited to join. Perhaps we can make a category here (and/or @ meta) as well if we have a substantial number of followers. Needless to say that LinkedIn is just an example. The same counts or will count for Twitter, Facebook et al. Patio (talk) 06:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] A serious problem
I don't know who to contact about this, but it looks like a lot of people are registering a lot of spam names that need cleaning up. The best example is the list here. That's just the tip of the iceberg of course. I need to find an administrator who has the power to delete those. Tyciol (talk) 15:11, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
- Hi Tyciol,
Refer to Administrator help needed
Patio (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Wikipedian, Wikipedist.. what next?
Wikipedish? Wikipedese? :P
- OlEnglish (talk) 23:07, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
[edit] International Conferences on Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems 2009
IAMA 2009 Call for Papers International Conferences on Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems 2009
22 - 24 July 2009, Chennai, India http://www.iama09.org/ Submission Deadline: 14 April, 2009
The International Conference on Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems (IAMA 2009) will be held in Chennai, India, during 22-24 July 2009 and organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Aarupadai Veedu Institute of Technology (www.avit.ac.in). Over the years, IAMA is a forum for disseminating the latest research results in Intelligent Agent & Multi-Agent Systems.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Agent-Oriented Software Engineering • Agent Languages and Technologies • Optimization in Multi-Agent Systems • Agent & Distributed Resources Optimization • Multi-Agent Based Simulation • Agent for Autonomy-Oriented Computing • Service-Oriented Computing: Agents, Semantics, and Engineering • Multi-Agent Based Simulation Systems • Agent Knowledge Representation and Services Discovery • Adaptive Learning & Planning Agents and Multi-Agent Systems • Agent Interaction Protocols • Agent Ontological / Semantic interactions • Agent Argumentation Theories • Agent Design Mechanism • Agent & Auctions and Related Structures • Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems • Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations • Models and Methods for Multi-Robot Systems • Programming Multi-Agent Systems • Agent Implementation Models • Agent-based Technologies and Applications for Enterprise Interoperability Agents in Traffic and Transportation • Agent Technology for Sensor Networks • Agents and Peer to Peer Computing • Agent-Mediated Electronic Commerce • Emergence Intelligence of Networked Agents • Soft Computing Models for Agents • Agent Based Learning Mechanisms • Agent Based Web Information Systems, Problems and Solutions. • Agent Collective Decision Making Personalization Agents. • Agent Semantics and Ontology Engineering • Agent Ontology-Based Information Extraction and Retrieval • Agent-Based Web Mining • Agent Visualization of Information and Knowledge • Agent Meta-Knowledge Discovery and Representation • Agent Social Interaction Paradigms • Goal-Directed Services Support Agents • Agent Based Web Information Retrieval and Filtering • Agent Based Collaborative Filtering and Recommendation • Agent Based Geographic Information Retrieval • Agent Clustering-Based Recommender Systems • Agent Social Networks and Social Intelligence • Agent and Social Computing • Agent Based Social and Psychological Issues • Web Agents & Global Information Foraging Agent Networks and Topologies • Agent Web Service Reconfiguration • Agent Web Service Workflow Composition • Intelligent Human-Web Interaction Agent Systems • Adaptive Agent-Based Web Interfaces Mobile Agents • Agent Behavior Modeling • Agents & Data Warehousing • Agents & Web Security, Integrity, Privacy and Trust • Intelligent Agent e-Technology • Business Intelligence & Agent Technology • Web-Based Direct Marketing & Agent Computing • CRM & Agent Computing • Agent Groups and Teams • Agent Norms and Normative Behavior • Agent Commitments • Agent & Organizations and Institutions • Agent for Organizational Learning • Agent for Organizational Planning • Agent & Open Systems • Agent Applications - Digital Libraries,E-Publishing, E-Business, E-Finance,E-Learning, E-Medicine, E-Government • Agents for Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical and other Applications • Human Emotion and Agent Systems
PAPER SUBMISSION
A submission should report on original, previously unpublished research not being concurrently considered elsewhere for publication in a journal or conference. This conference is soliciting regular papers (8 pages), short papers (6 pages) and extended abstracts (2 pages). These limits include text, figures and references. Extended abstracts are encouraged as a mechanism for the timely reporting of interesting but preliminary work, that may not as yet have the level of evaluation or detail that would be expected for a regular paper.
Reviews will be double blind, therefore authors are requested to avoid including anything that can be used to reveal their identity. Submissions will be peer reviewed rigorously and evaluated on the basis of adherence, originality, soundness, significance, presentation, understanding of the state of the art, and overall quality of their technical contribution.
Papers should be single-spaced pages using at least 11-point fonts and one-inch margins on all sides on A4/Letter size pages. All papers must be submitted electronically through the Program Chair e-mail. Accepted regular and short papers will receive a slot for oral presentation in the conference. In addition all regular, short and extended abstracts will be presented in poster sessions and appear in the conference proceedings. The Springer is expected to publish the conference proceedings with accepted papers in the LNCS series. Some papers that are judged to have limited merit may be accepted as short papers. At the time of submission, authors should indicate if they wish to have their paper considered as a short paper if it is not accepted as a regular paper. At least one author of each accepted paper must register, attend the conference and present the paper. Details of the paper submission including format methods are available on the conference website (http://www.iama09.org).
BEST PAPER AWARD
IAMA 2009 will have Best Paper Awards, one for each track. The Program Committee may decline to make an award.
Important Dates: Electronic abstract submission deadline: 14 Mar, 2009 Electronic paper submission deadline: 14 April, 2009 Notification of Acceptance : 14 May, 2009 Final Camera-Ready Manuscript : 26 June, 2009
Please Forward this Notice to Faculty Members and Researchers Scholars of the Department. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.125.98.191 (talk) 13:48, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Over 9 million Wikipedians
Who was user number 9,000,000? Any way of finding this out? -- OlEnglish (Talk) 20:33, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
[edit] ip
are ips wikipedians too? --Fangoriously (talk) 02:46, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
