[2890] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
[Mit-talk] MIT on Wikipedia
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Keegan)
Wed Nov 22 20:12:07 2006
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:03:32 -0800
From: "Brian Keegan" <bkeegan@gmail.com>
To: mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
Greetings all!
I am spamming you all to ask for your advice and input on MIT's Wikipedia
article <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT>. My goal is to make this article
a featured article, meaning that it will appear on the front page of the
english Wikipedia for one day as an example of an excellent article. Given
that Cornell, Duke, UMichigan, and Michigan State have already appeared as
featured articles, while we here at MIT were generally responsible for
creating things like computers, networks, and open-source software, I find
the situation atrocious </alma mater fanaticism>.
I have been attempting to solicit feedback and input from other wikipedians
and there are other MIT wikipedians out there helping, but nothing beats
going to the source! Moreover, this is not under the color of any
administration/official program, just from one (former) student to all of
you.
As in anything in life, there are rules: don't vandalize the page, be
specific, cite your sources, review and participate in the discussion
page<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology>.
If you have never contributed to a wikipedia article before, there are
several useful tools to get you started: What is a featured
article?<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_a_featured_article%253F>,
Community Portal - Guidelines, Help,
Resources<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal>
Things to be done:
1. Make sure everything is accurate and correct!
2. The article is a bit too long, so we could use some help editing it down
(removing repetitive\redundant information, moving less important stuff to
sub-pages)
3. Need to ensure that the article is fair and neutral, not just a long
advertisement for MIT
4. Expand and contribute the sub-pages like History of
MIT<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_MIT>,
Architecture of MIT <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture_of_MIT>, MIT
hacks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_hacks>, People at
MIT<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology_people>,
Housing at MIT<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_at_the_Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology>
5. Pictures! If you have good pictures of the campus (ie buildings) or
MIT-specific events (6.270, 2.007, Rush, Commencement, etc), upload
them<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Upload>!
(Make sure that you took them and you release them under a creative commons
or GNU license though, don't just steal them off other webpages.)
With your help we can get on the front page of wikipedia (and probably the
MIT spotlight) and make everyone else realize how much I/we HTFP.
Brian Keegan (aka madcoverboy)
Class of 2006
--
Brian Keegan
bkeegan@gmail.com
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