Wikipedia

[low_delta]

I do a lot of editing at Wikipedia. I started there because I was interested in fixing up the Violent Femmes articles, and I've ended up joining the Album Project, so I do a lot of editing to album articles. I don't do much content editing though, since I'm expert on only a few bands, and I'm not that good a writer. Most of my edits are technical stuff, like spelling, grammar, format, links and categorization. Some of the problems I just happen upon, and others I find by checking lists of articles other people have tagged for problems.

Lately (like since last night), I've edited articles on albums by these artists:

Joe Diffie (Country)
Mindy Smith (singer-songwriter)
The Promise Drive (local Georgia band)
Tiziano Ferro (Italian Pop singer)
Governor (R&B artist)
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (Indie rock)
Lacuna Coil (Gothic metal)
tim Russ (Actor)
Jason Mraz (singer-songwriter)
Antônio Carlos Jobim (Jazz/Bossa Nova)

Comments

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

There are all kinds there of things that people who aren't experts in anything can do. :-)

[heartwork.livejournal.com]

tell me more!!! i would love to participate at that site, but never thought i had anything to offer.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Well... I've made 1500 edits, but I've actually written only a few articles or sections.

You can go wander around an fix errors as you see them. Like spelling, punctuation and grammar. I spend a whole lot of time italicizing album titles and enquoting song titles. With only a little learning, you can fix wikimarkup, like fixing broken links.

Disambiguation is a big one. A lot of links link to the wrong page. Like someone will put brackets around Easter to link to the album, but that will just take the reader to a page about the holiday. So instead of [[Easter]], the link should be [[Easter (album)|Easter]], so it links to Easter (album), but the link displays as Easter.

I belong to WikiProject Albums (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums), where there's a whole list of things to do, few of which require any actual knowledge, much less talent. :-) And there are other projects for other interests.

If you want, go there an look around. Click on a bunch of the menubar links. And feel free to stop by my talk page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Freekee) and say "hi."