Wikipedia Quotes - page 2

Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast. (Nicholson Baker)
So I think one thing that Wikipedia has to do as a culture is ask itself, 'Are we willing– to be this– this self-selecting– and– and be this small?' We can have many more people if we're willing to be a more welcoming community. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
When we're talking both to Wikipedians and people outside of Wikipedia, we say, 'Look, if we want to include all of these other narratives besides the typical narrative that we usually tell of dead white men, we've gotta get it in there now.' View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Archivists take Wikipedia with a grain of salt. You think there's a troll behind the screen and don't know what's going on, what's the accountability. She walked us through this great unknown, Wikipedia land. She put us at ease. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Wadewitz used Wikipedia as a way to spread and improve knowledge on the period she focused, adding to biographies of women writers and thinkers. Wadewitz made her first edit on July 18, 2004, and over the course of her career made approximately 49,000 edits. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
It is a huge loss for Wikipedia. She may have been our single biggest contributor on these topics - female authors, women's history. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
We definitely wanna increase the number of women. But just increasing the number of women isn't necessarily going to– improve the– the fact that content on Wikipedia itself is skewed. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Dr. Wadewitz wrote and edited extensively on Wikipedia during the final 10 years of her life, contributing 36 featured articles and more than 49,000 edits. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Ms. Wadewitz's interest in rock climbing played out on Wikipedia. Her last editing was to improve an article about Steph Davis, a prominent female climber and wingsuit flier. In Ms. Wadewitz's hands, the article became filled with personal details, spectacular photos, a highlighted quotation and 25 footnotes. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
So in one respect, I would say that we need to add the voice of feminists to Wikipedia who are going to talk about– women as underrepresented groups. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Wikipedia needs to recruit women, yes, but, more importantly, it needs to recruit feminists. And feminists can be of any gender. (Adrianne Wadewitz)
Wadewitz eventually came out as a Wikipedian, the term the encyclopedia uses to describe the tens of thousands of volunteers who write and edit its pages. A rarity as a woman in the male-centric Wikipedia universe, she became one of its most valued and prolific contributors as well as a force for diversifying its ranks and demystifying its inner workings. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Wadewitz said to attract more women editors, attitudes within the Wikipedia community need to change. This became clear when she revealed her gender, after writing anonymously for several years. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
If a piece of information is wrong or misrepresented on Wikipedia, it affects the way the entire world sees that topic. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
The 37-year-old was remarkable not just for Wadewitz' Wikipedia contributions, but for her focus on chronicling the overwhelmingly under-researched roles played by women in history and present-day life. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Wadewitz was probably best known as a longtime Wikipedia editor. She edited her first entry in 2004, and went on to create pages for female writers, scholars, and their works, editing nearly 50,000 posts in total. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Unlike the Wikipedia editor stereotype, Wadewitz was not a young male who was tech-obsessed. Still she found Wikipedia appealing as a way to spread her academic knowledge, which was sometimes seen by few, whereas her encyclopedic entries might be read by millions. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Wadewitz, a US academic, became one of the most prolific and influential editors of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
She was one of the top 10 editors in terms of producing a lot of high-quality content. Wikipedia is full of brilliant, talented people. She really stood out. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
Legendary in the Wikipedia world, Wadewitz had more than 50,000 'edits' or contributions to her credit. She also was the author of 36 'featured' articles, the highest distinction bestowed by other Wikipedians based on accuracy, fairness, style and comprehensiveness. View quote
Adrianne Wadewitz
I wish to hearby announce that Wikipedia represents the highest, greatest, achievements of human life to date. I shall henceforth replace the phrase "the greatest thing since sliced bread" with the phrase "the greatest thing since Wikipedia." That is so long as what it posts about me is accurate or at least inaccurately extremely flattering. (Jonah Goldberg)
But the blot on the encyclopedia's fair name is not just in the wrongness of the statement, but in its partisan and non-encyclopedic nature.... If Wikipedia wants to live up to its promise of being a reliable encyclopedic source, it will strike this and all sentences resembling it from its article on me. At most, it can use me as an example of how it was fooled by some of its all-too-partisan collaborators. Speaking of whom: the history page accompanying my page proves forever that some Wikipedia collaborators wanted to inflict on me the maximum harm possible, an attitude incompatible with work for an encyclopedia. Shouldn't Wikipedia fire them and wipe out everything they wrote? Of course they can still contribute blogs and columns, by preference under their own full names, but they have proven themselves not to be encyclopedic authorities. ... View quote
Koenraad Elst
[Wikipedia is] like a sausage: you might like the taste of it, but you don't necessarily want to see how it's made. View quote
Jimmy Wales
Frankly, and let me be blunt, Wikipedia as a readable product is not for us. It's for them. It's for that girl in Africa who can save the lives of hundreds of thousands of people around her, but only if she's empowered with the knowledge to do so. View quote
Jimmy Wales
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course, and having a lot of fun doing it, but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way. View quote
Jimmy Wales