I Thought It’s Hard To Edit Wikipedia!

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Update: About 5 minutes after this post wikipedia removed those two names and well its not surprising. However if you search for the terms “melvin azoogle” or “raymille azoogle” the edited wiki page still comes up on Google.

Wikipedia is probably one of the more resourceful internet online encyclopedia (free) nowadays. The thing is that everyone can edit wikipedia. But then, its hard to game wikipedia because oftentimes they will check teh edited content and then 90% of the time, they will just reject your edited part. That’s understandable because Wiki is probably the most established encyclopedia site we have on earth today. :-)

Anyway last week, we did some editing for some part of the wikipedia and we just did it for fun, to be honest. Obviously we’re putting up crap on some wiki pages. As I was browsing today, I was shocked to see that one page particularly about Azoogle that we edited I think was accepted. The Wikipedia about Azoogle today has my name into it as CFO and my friend Raymille Belleza as a hotdog Vendor. LOL…

I thought its hard to edit a wiki page!

Anyway, again I know this doesn’t really make any sense at all but then I think this must be something Wikipedia needs to work for! If each page could be edited w/o much effort, then probably wiki is not most reliable source then, or at least reliable source for people. Wht do you think?

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    18 Responses to "I Thought It’s Hard To Edit Wikipedia!"

    • Tom - StandOutBlogger.com 11:49 AM 11/11/2008

      haha thats classic! its funny because schools allow you to reference wikipedia :D

    • Ganesh 01:47 PM 11/11/2008

      Haha. I’ll try that one. ;)

      Better put up a page for myself. :D

    • Ajith Edassery 03:26 PM 11/11/2008

      Well, that is life with Wikis… Regardless of the minor issues, wikipedia is still ‘the’ standard for to what heights and popularity public wikis can be taken to.

      Btw, anyone ever donated to Wikipedia?

      Cheers,
      Ajith

      Melvin Reply:
      November 13th, 2008 at 1:13 pm

      I see they have received many donations across the world. Wiki is still the standard as you’ve said…

    • Dan 05:02 PM 11/11/2008

      Wikipedia can’t really be trusted as a good source of information (or accurate source…) but it can come in handy!

    • pradeep 04:51 AM 12/11/2008

      Agree that it is the best available encyclopedia on earth.As it is said everything and anything has loopholes!!!

    • Kumar 11:49 AM 12/11/2008

      Nice article melvin

    • Kumar 11:50 AM 12/11/2008

      Like this article melvin

    • Ganesh 01:38 PM 12/11/2008

      You can get traffic if you place links on Wikipedia but you won’t get any pagerank value since all the links on Wikipedia were made “nofollow” long back.

      Melvin Reply:
      November 13th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

      But then most SEM believe that Google places a higher importance on sites in Wikipedia which I believe is true

    • Farrhad 04:15 PM 12/11/2008

      Many people like me visit Wikipedia for information we need. We follow the information with good faith. I find you doing this for “fun” is very cheap.

      *Will this comment be accepted?*

      Melvin Reply:
      November 13th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

      sure why not. ANyway as what Ive said in the last paragraph, I dont mind if people think its nonsense. actually its nonsense for us too. We love to experiment and test so that’s maybe my “lame” thing.. :-)

    • Mike Henry 01:52 PM 13/11/2008

      So Raymille Belleza won’t sell me a hotdog then?

    • gel 02:12 PM 13/11/2008

      I have been wondering ahahaha
      of so many people around the world,
      why did you choose Raymille as your favorite person to throw jokes at? hahaha XD

      Melvin Reply:
      November 14th, 2008 at 2:14 am

      Because he’s that damn stupid a great friend.. :-)

      gel Reply:
      November 16th, 2008 at 12:23 pm

      Everyone in school are sure fun to be with. HAHAHAHAHAHA!~
      It makes me forget my being serious with my life.

    • JUST COOL DESIGN 01:24 PM 15/11/2008

      That is a riot! I never knew you could edit wikipedia – i’ll have to try it ;)

    • Harish 03:02 PM 20/11/2008

      ah that looks interesting and funny too.I have got to do it.Ill try to edit one too.