[NetBehaviour] Please help me with Wikipedia!!

[Pall Thayer]

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On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 12:01 AM, Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:

>
>
> Yes and no; I've read too many articles that read as self-written and are
> overblown. I feel I'm capable of doing that myself unfortunately -
>
>
> On Sun, 25 May 2014, Randall Packer wrote:
>
>  I am perplexed by this: since when are Wikipedia artist-bios written by
>> the
>> artist a vanity press? I consider writing one?s own bio on Wikipedia not
>>
>> only critical to making sure the information is accurate, but it is
>> actually
>> empowering for the artist to take control of this platform to communicate
>> precisely who they are. Too often artists are at the mercy of curators,
>> editors, and dealers, etc., who think they know the true meaning and
>> spirit
>> of an artist?s work and identity. In Wikipedia, the artist can say
>> (almost)
>> exactly what needs to be said and how to say it. Not that Wikipedia
>> doesn?t
>>
>> have rules: it is crucial to cite references, including links to other
>> relevant Wikipedia articles, etc. A solution that I chose, was to
>> appropriate the biography of another artist, and use it as a structural
>> framework. But from the point on, I keep up my Wikipedia biography as I
>> would a carefully tended garden.
>>
>> If an artist can?t maintain their own bio on Wikipedia, then the Web is
>>
>> dead.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall_Packer
>>
>>
>>
>> From: ruth catlow <ruth.catlow at furtherfield.org>
>> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
>> <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
>> Date: Sunday, May 25, 2014 at 8:11 AM
>> To: <netbehaviour at netbehaviour.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Please help me with Wikipedia!!
>>
>> Hiya,
>> me too
>> : )
>> R
>>
>>
>> On 25/05/2014 11:30, dave miller wrote:
>>
>>       Hi helen and alan
>>       Good idea and would be happy to do this.
>>       Dave
>>
>>       On 25 May 2014 10:59, "helen varley jamieson"
>>       <helen at creative-catalyst.com> wrote:
>>             hi alan,
>>             probably many of us are in a similar position.
>>             someone has created a page about me on wikipedia as
>>             well, as a student project in 2012. it's not bad, i
>>             did a few little minor corrections myself & it looks
>>             like 7 others have made minor contributions as well.
>>             but i don't expect that the original writer will
>>             maintain it, & already some things are out of date.
>>             i don't want to maintain it either (nor are we
>>             supposed to do our own pages).
>>
>>             maybe we should have a netbehaviourists wikipedia
>>             sprint some time during the northern hemisphere
>>             summer? have an irc chat & work together to update
>>             each others' entries over a couple of evenings?
>>
>>             h : )
>>
>>             On 22/05/14 7:57 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>>
>>
>>       Please help me with Wikipedia!!
>>
>>       There's a stub article on me in Wikipedia. I've
>>       asked a couple
>>       of friends to expand it, but no luck. The problem is
>>       that we're
>>       all unemployed here and it would help to have
>>       something more
>>       substantial. I'm throwing this open at this point;
>>       perhaps one
>>       or more of the people reading this would make some
>>       changes? It
>>       would be greatly appreciated; I'm tired of working
>>       under the
>>       radar so to speak, and need employment (which is
>>       admittedly
>>       another story). I could change the entry myself, but
>>       that's not
>>       only frowned upon; it also reflects a vanity press
>>       approach to
>>       the world and I'd rather not go there for ethical
>>       reasons.
>>       Anyway if you have the time, please do make changes,
>>       enter
>>       something, turn the stub into an article, and I'd be
>>       literally
>>       eternally grateful, at least until I die (which
>>       precludes
>>       eternity, so I'm thinking along the lines of a
>>       sliding scale).
>>       Thanks, Alan
>>
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>> --
>> helen varley jamieson
>> helen at creative-catalyst.com
>> http://www.creative-catalyst.com
>> http://www.wehaveasituation.net
>> http://www.upstage.org.nz
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