As you probably know, Wikipedia is edited by the people (that’s you), for the people (that’s you too!).
This is fab and groovy, as people can share their knowledge with the world, but occassionally problems can occur.
As anyone can add or edit anything in the entries on it (there’s a small number of exceptions to that these days), there are infrequent disagreements as to what should going onto a particular page.
One of these is going on at the moment on the Jazz Festival’s Wikipedia page.
Over the last two or three weeks or so, some people have added text to the page that others haven’t liked, so they’ve chopped some of those added bits out.
Of late, someone calling themselves Superfurrygorilla has just been deleting any text referring to the financial difficulties. When others add further details, Superfurrygorilla just deletes them – all pretty time consuming, ultimately reaching a zero sum game.
The odd problem like this isn’t new to Wikipedia, so there’s considerable detail on accuracy disputes.
The current dispute over the page has now sprouted an online discussion about the ding-dong.
Lend a hand
Wikipedia is all about the Wisdom of the Crowd, so if you’ve got knowledge or expertise on the Jazz event, pop yourself over to the Wikipedia page on it and add your thoughts and experience to the discussion that’s going on there. That’s what it’s all about, democracy.
If you do decide to add to the collective knowledge, it’s vital to remember that Wikipedia isn’t interested in your point of view, just the cold hard facts, backed up with online references hopefully.
