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[edit] Wikiphilosophy
Every user has a different Wikiphilosophy. Here is mine:
[edit] Exclusionism, Deletionism, Inclusionism, etc.
- Darwikinism: I do believe in Darwikinism (although I do not believe in Darwinism). The constant updating, changing, and restructuring of articles and the the content of the articles causes, or forces, the articles to become more like the norm. Also, because of the competing edits by different users, the articles tend to have to compromise and become less biased.
- Deletionism: I am not for or against deletionism. I believe that most articles should remain on Wikipedia, even if they are deemed poorly written, or unimportant. But I also believe that Wikipedia should not have pages about every unknown company, or every garage band. These kind of articles are almost never notable in my opinion.
- Delusionsim: I can probably be classified as a Delusionist. See Deletionism.
- Essentialism: I sort of agree with Essentialism, because it is true that Wikipedia should strive for quality. But i disagree with this because we should not sacrifice quantity either. I am mostly in the middle of this Wikiphilosophy, neither being a supporter, nor a critic.
- Eventualism: I am not an Eventualist. This encyclopedia should be edited immediately by the average user, we shouldn't wait for someone with 3,000 + edits to come along and wikify a section.
- Exclusionism: I don't really agree with Exclusionists. An article with a section that needs to be wikified shouldn't be deleted. It should be wikified! Exclusionists can remove a lot of important information from an article.
- Exopedianism: I'm not an Exopedianist, but I do believe that Wikipedia is first and foremost an encyclopedia, not a place to meet cool new people, or discuss my interests. Other than that, I'm not really into the Exopedian thing.
- Immediatism: I am a true Immediatist. Problems with the encyclopedia should be edited quickly, to avoid ruining Wikipedia's professional image. Critics of Wikipedia argue that the encyclopedia offers a lot of incorrect information and speculation. This should be fixed quickly, so Wikipedia will become more widely accepted as a good source of information. I believe that if a page is being visited often, (for example Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows anonymous and inexperienced users should be prohibited from editing. This lowers vandalism, and poorly drawn up edits. If anonymous or new users wish to have an edit made to the page, they just have to post a comment on the talk page, explaining the edit.
- Inclusionism: See Deletionism.
- Incrementalism: I agree with Incrementalism, because some articles that are not important to the encylclopedia now, may be later, and I will have no objections to the article if it is recreated.
- Mergism: I usually disagree with Mergism. A lot of times, Mergists tend to try to merge articles, causing a 100+ kilobyte page to form. Sometimes merging articles is the best way to preserve information that would be deleted anyway, but I usually oppose mergism.
- Metapdianism: I do participate in a lot of discussion based programs, (Xfd, Rfa, etc.) but I am not exclusively a Metapedianism. I believe that users should balance between Metapedianism and Exopedinamism.
- Separatism: I am more of a Seperatist than a mergist. I think that different ideas should have seperate pages. This reduces article size, and makes articles easier to organize. See also Mergism.
- Wikidemocratism: Taken directly from the article: "I recognize that Wikipedia is not a democracy and that politics and process do not take precedence over building an encyclopedia, they argue that this is outweighed by the need to ensure that the good-faith opinions of all established editors are taken into account, and that administrators and bureaucrats do not exercise excessive personal power."
- Wikithoritarianism: See Wikidemocratism.
To be continued
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