(Source: David Dale - Who We Are - A snapshot of Australia today)
This kind of language I can handle. What really bugs me: ‘Mundy’, ‘Toozdy’, ‘Winzdy’, ‘I done some shopping today’ and ‘10 k’, ‘3 pair’ and ‘50 tonne’.
My Wikipedia spam lasted 20 days.
My strategy: I posted on the List of Awareness Ribbons page on Wikipedia on the 18 September 2007. I suggested that wearing the green and blue ribbon was a symbol of support to people with ‘centophobic tendencies’. I referenced this fact with a link to http://www.centophobia.com/fromprank/.
This sneaky addition was removed on the morning of 8 October; 20 days later. My prank was quite clearly spam and yet it still remained for 20 days. While the List of Awareness Ribbons page isn’t necessarily a hugely popular page, you would wonder how long it would take for less obvious changes to be corrected. I just hope no school children (or from my experience, university students) were reading this article during this time period.
Why did I do it? Because I wanted to know how efficient Wikipedia is. Tell me about your experience with Wikipedia. Do you love it?
I’d just like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday period and a great 2008.
I’ve been really busy updating my photography website over the past few weeks so I have been less inclined to post. The problem with PHP is that it is deceptively simple, until it comes to making it 100% bulletproof for other people. I’ve decided that I’m going to take the next step with the website and give users the ability to register and upload photos (no one will actually do this because there are so many other, better photo sharing sites out there) but I thought it would be another challenge for me. So I’ve learnt how to manipulate images on the server, and I’ve made a whole other user section with registration and profiles etc.
The really difficult things to set up are the user relationships and photo access in my opinion. I’m having difficulty writing queries that return only the images that a specific user should have access to. Anyway I’ll get there.
By UltimateMrBoogie.
