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I was also pretty impressed at the speed of which edits were being added. I opened the Poundbury article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury https://en.wik

by Hamuko 4y ago

I was also pretty impressed at the speed of which edits were being added. I opened the Poundbury article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poundbury) and even though the news had just broken and it was a tangentially related article, the opening paragraph already said "keen endorsement of Charles, King of the United Kingdom".

akolbe 4y ago
All the more remarkable is that all of this is done by unpaid volunteers.
- Denvercoder9 4y ago
  Changing mentions of Charles, Prince of Wales to Charles, King of the United Kingdom seems like something that's easily automated though. I highly doubt someone manually went searching for pages that mentioned him to update them.
  - akolbe 4y ago
    The two people who changed it in the Poundbury article only changed it there, and nowhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=1109226533&oldid=1094823375 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=11... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Grahame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Grahame https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=next&oldid=1109226533 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=ne... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.231.10.34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.231.1...
gerdesj 4y ago
I had no idea about Poundbury's link to CRIII. I live in Yeovil, roughly 30 miles away and I have a customer there too. From memory it is quite different to the norm - lots of space is one impression I had. The road system is a bit different to what we expect in Britain too. Can't quite put my finger on it. I think I might toddle on down and review the place with my eyes open.
- akolbe 4y ago
  I just looked at it on Google Street View. It needs a few more old trees, but a lot of it is quite charming.

by Hamuko 4y ago

akolbe 4y ago

All the more remarkable is that all of this is done by unpaid volunteers.

Denvercoder9 4y ago
Changing mentions of Charles, Prince of Wales to Charles, King of the United Kingdom seems like something that's easily automated though. I highly doubt someone manually went searching for pages that mentioned him to update them.
- akolbe 4y ago
  The two people who changed it in the Poundbury article only changed it there, and nowhere else. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=1109226533&oldid=1094823375 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=11... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Grahame https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Grahame https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=next&oldid=1109226533 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Poundbury&diff=ne... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.231.10.34 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/81.231.1...

gerdesj 4y ago

I had no idea about Poundbury's link to CRIII. I live in Yeovil, roughly 30 miles away and I have a customer there too. From memory it is quite different to the norm - lots of space is one impression I had. The road system is a bit different to what we expect in Britain too. Can't quite put my finger on it. I think I might toddle on down and review the place with my eyes open.

akolbe 4y ago
I just looked at it on Google Street View. It needs a few more old trees, but a lot of it is quite charming.