As some of you are most likely aware, the IF Wikipedia Team is in need of a refresh. @Wren_Jago tried, but closed operations due to someone who decided they didn’t like the IF Wikipedia Page. However, I am here to create an entirely new team for refreshing the page and making it great again!
Reply below if you’d be interested in joining and if we get enough people it will become a reality!
I’m planning to open an application process, but as long as you can do basic SPAG correctly (commas, brackets etc) and not make it sound like you’re a three year old (IF is a Flight Simulator. IF is for Mobile. IF is…) then it should be fine!
Bear in mind that Wikipedia bases itself on the use of unbiased sources - a group like this generally isn’t a good idea for that reason (as can be seen in the recent edit history of the IF wiki page).
Ok. Please tell me how likely it is that some random Joe is going to stumble upon the IF wikipedia page and go ‘Oh, this looks outdated. Let me spend hours rewriting it!’.
There’s no need for me to explain that. I’m just giving you a head’s up on how Wikipedia works based on how these teams have worked in the past (take a look at the edit history on the IF page - a lot of work has been undone due to lacking a neutral point of view or failing to cite secondary sources).
Up to you if you want to do this of course, but don’t want you guys to get discouraged if your content gets removed for being “too close to source”, etc. :)
Wikipedia is already debating whether the page should be kept up. Also, as Cameron said, Wikipedia is meant to be unbiased - a ‘team’ being set up would be most certainly biased.
Besides, anyone can edit Wikipedia - that’s the whole point of it. Someone wouldn’t need to join the team to edit it - they could just go ahead and do it.
The point of the team is so there can be a centralised point of discussion about the page. If you don’t want to be a member, you don’t want to be a member. Full Stop.