Being transparent
15 years ago
This week it's going to be all about contributing to the Internet. But not only contributing, also sharing my point of view on my experience of e-contribution. So this week I'm making an intelligent contribution, meaning no videos of my cat or of myself looking for myself all around Paris. I'm done with Youtube, this week I'm contributing to...
So this week I wrote an article on the Encycopedia about Pink the series, which is a webseries. There was no article about it online so I took the opportunity to create one. Truth is, I started a war with Wikipedia !
First, I met my adversary. I created an account and the website. So far, things were going OK, the target seemed to welcome me on the battle field.
But then, finally arriving there, I realized that Wikipedia is far from being simple ! The enemy, I've gotta tell you, is very complex ! Writing an article took me hours !
I arrived on the home page, and couldn't find anything there about starting to write an article. So I spread my net over, check every corner of the battle field, without success. I finally decide to be strategic. I enter the name of the article I want to write about in the search field and the enemy finally asks me, as there is no article existing, if I want to write one. So I thought great, let's start contributing to this great community of democratisation of knowledge, but then no...
The enemy is acting strange. He is not telling me the rules I should follow, neither is he clear about how we should fight. I really don't know how to use this page. The enemy attracts me to "the Wikipedia:Your first article" page.
Oh my god ! It was a trap ! I am now in the quagmire, sinking in the stream of informations ! See how long their explication pages are ! Same for the footnotes explanation page ! It's gonna take me hours to escape from this situation !
But I'm not the type of person who gives up like that. My troops are counting on me ! I have to fight to release the information I have ! So I hang on, and finally get some reinforcement. I found a secret passage, a pre-written page with codes so I just have to fill the blanks.
With some intuition and after quite a lot of time, I finally fulfil the mission !
Here is the proof I infiltrated the enemy field and conquered it !
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