Redstate Wiki entry needs Help
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I was bouncing around this morning and came across Redstate's Wiki entry.
I was very disappointed. Who in the HE...heck is entering stuff about Redstate.
It's pretty much all negative. Now..some of it might be true, but theres lots of positive stuff about RS also that needs to be entered.
I've never scratched the surface of Wiki before...but I will be starting today.
This has been discussed before ...Right? Do you need seniority to enter stuff? The last entry was on July 3rd.
Anybody thats a Wiki expert chime in. Am I totally late to this...If this is a Touchy subject...ignore me.
"40 million American households that don't watch McCain are generally happier
than those people in households that do watch McCain."
that anyone can edit them and everyone is encouraged to do so.
That having been said, there is a bit of code to learn and there are standards that are supposed to be maintained. There are many folks who edit Wikis in partisan fashion. That is frowned upon. If it is done enough times, an editor can be banned or at least the article locked to prevent more editing.
The cool thing is that every edit is saved and it is known exactly who edited what. Thus the source of bad and good information can be discovered. Check the 'History' page at the wiki article in question.
A friend of mine is teaching a webinar every Monday at Noon for about 25-30 minutes on how to edit Wikis. If you'd like an invitation to the webinar, let me know and I can wrangle you one.
Blue
Smaller Government! Lower Taxes! Stronger Defense! More Liberty!
I think it's time for everybody to start putting up positive info about Redstate..we can dig some up Right? ha
I'm sure there are folks who 'wiki' Redstate...And look what they get.
It's time to PUSH back.
On Friday I read Wikipedia's entry on Jesse Helms. When I got to the part where it said he represented the KKK wing of the Republican party, it was time to move on.
This gem of writing on the RedState page:
"A recent decision (Oct 22, 2007) has been made to ban any new member that is less than 6 months old from posting about Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul."
I believe in listening to the younger generation and all, but I think RedState commenters should, at a minimum, be potty-trained.
Ahhhhhhh! Is it really worth the trouble?!
"PsychObama, qu'est-ce que c'est?"
From folks we had banned in the past.
Please, feel free to chip in. :-)
No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life - John McCain
"40 million American households that don't watch McCain are generally happier
than those people in households that do watch McCain."
Wikipedia is only useful and accurate for the trivial, and too brief and biased on the important to be of use for this stuff.
And anything you fix can just be replaced. So why get invested in perpetual whack-a-mole?
and see.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
"longwinded parsings of the esoteric, if not completely hallucinated bul...BS"
LOL
"Face it, we aren't going to win. I'd start buying gold and hiding cash under my mattress in preparation for the ultra Dem. Congress and the ObamaMessiah and Princess Pouty Face's Socialist! Paradise!".....Illinidiva
For starters, we've had more famous posters here than just Tom DeLay. Fred Thompson has posted here numerous times and so has Newt Gingrich; Newt even followed up in the comments, which is a rarity amongst 'famous' posters. It might also be useful to elaborate there on what the posting rules are here and how some rules (like the Ron Paul rule) came about as a result of abuses of the site.
If we don't play ourselves up, nobody will.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777