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Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archiv
by pwdisswordfish0 6y ago
Wikipedia contributions are also not something you “created”. In fact, you’re discouraged from adding information you have not taken from somewhere else. Archival, compilation, curation, categorization, making information legible and accessible and persistent is still work. See also archive.org. Whether the specific topic makes some people uncomfortable is beside the point. The question was “why do you try to help a website you like prosper without anything in return”. The reward is a more complete foot database and the good feeling of having helped.
- watwut 6y agoWikipedia contributions are very much created. You are not supposed to copy paste from elsewhere. You are writing own text.
- gruez 6y agoI think he's referring to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research You can't copy paste, but you're also not supposed to come up with stuff yourself.
- watwut 6y agoBut taking existing facts and rearranging them into new text is considered "creating" in basically any context. Books and articles, especially those written for general public, are often collections of already existing facts. And it counts as creating.