Comments on: Visualizing the deletion process on Wikipedia http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-990980 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-990980 perhaps i am missing something but all of the "keeps" have been deleted! perhaps i am missing something but all of the “keeps” have been deleted!

]]> By: freshacconci http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991241 freshacconci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991241 The deletion discussion is actually quite fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_cats_with_fraudulent_diplomas The deletion discussion is actually quite fascinating:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/List_of_cats_with_fraudulent_diplomas

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991006 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991006 Very nice visualization. Weird that a lot of AfDs that resulted in deletion are about judaism, and several which resulted in keeping are about Harry Potter. In particular, why is 'List of jewish communists' almost unanimously voted for deletion, while 'Second Wizardry War' was kept? Is "communist" still considered some kind of insult? And 'North America' was deleted (It now exists again), while Boxxy was kept? Or am I misreading the graph? Very nice visualization.
Weird that a lot of AfDs that resulted in deletion are about judaism, and several which resulted in keeping are about Harry Potter. In particular, why is ‘List of jewish communists’ almost unanimously voted for deletion, while ‘Second Wizardry War’ was kept? Is “communist” still considered some kind of insult?

And ‘North America’ was deleted (It now exists again), while Boxxy was kept?
Or am I misreading the graph?

]]> By: jamesscottbrown http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991019 jamesscottbrown Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991019 An alternative presentation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194912/AfD%20poster.pdf (warning, pdf) An alternative presentation: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194912/AfD%20poster.pdf (warning, pdf)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991358 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991358 It's sad that this visualization exists at all, as the true information it conveys is: a) the amount of well-intentioned, hard work that is deleted on a regular basis b) the amount of meta-work that is wasted on these "notability" discussions All well-formed, well-cited articles belong in the wikipedia. Hard drive space is cheap and plentiful, and the existence of trivial articles in the wikipedia does not in any way hinder your usage of the articles you find "notable". It’s sad that this visualization exists at all, as the true information it conveys is:

a) the amount of well-intentioned, hard work that is deleted on a regular basis

b) the amount of meta-work that is wasted on these “notability” discussions

All well-formed, well-cited articles belong in the wikipedia. Hard drive space is cheap and plentiful, and the existence of trivial articles in the wikipedia does not in any way hinder your usage of the articles you find “notable”.

]]> By: freshacconci http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-992135 freshacconci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-992135 But all "well-formed, well-cited articles" do remain on Wikipedia. Most deleted articles are deleted for legitimate reasons, i.e. they are unsourced and there's no evidence that the subject is notable at this time. It has nothing to do with trivial articles. If you want trivial, Wikipedia has it. But all “well-formed, well-cited articles” do remain on Wikipedia. Most deleted articles are deleted for legitimate reasons, i.e. they are unsourced and there’s no evidence that the subject is notable at this time. It has nothing to do with trivial articles. If you want trivial, Wikipedia has it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991163 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991163 Just to be clear: this isn't a visualization of Wikipedia's entire deletion process. It's a (really cool) visualization of <em>one</em> deletion process, the one called Articles for Deletion that involves a request for comment that lasts a week. Just to be clear: this isn’t a visualization of Wikipedia’s entire deletion process. It’s a (really cool) visualization of one deletion process, the one called Articles for Deletion that involves a request for comment that lasts a week.

]]> By: tuckels http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-990943 tuckels Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-990943 I love these kind of things, and without this website, I'd never have discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats_with_fraudulent_diplomas , which, thankfully was not deleted. I love these kind of things, and without this website, I’d never have discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cats_with_fraudulent_diplomas , which, thankfully was not deleted.

]]> By: freshacconci http://boingboing.net/2011/01/11/visualizing-the-dele.html#comment-991223 freshacconci Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991223 Speaking of stats and neat graphs, the Edit Counter tool is always fun. You plug in an editor's username and it lets you know some factoids about what they've done. The page history stats does the same thing for articles with all sorts of data and graphs. Endless fun. http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/articleinfo/ Speaking of stats and neat graphs, the Edit Counter tool is always fun. You plug in an editor’s username and it lets you know some factoids about what they’ve done. The page history stats does the same thing for articles with all sorts of data and graphs. Endless fun.

http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/ec
http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/articleinfo/

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