I cam to mastodon, thinking I will be able to regulate myself better, not get addicted, have more control over the amount of time I waste on SM.
Instead I find myself spending hours researching topics to Shitpost.
@Full_marx I can relate to that, having put in Full time wwork hours into it this past week.
But it's green great fun, entertaining, educational and so far none of the conflicts I always was worried about in twitter.
Posted more here in one week, this one, than in the birdsite account for the years I have had the account there.
As long as we stay out of conflict, I think your time is well spent.
Allow me to be the devil reincarnate here.
Have you guys tried editing the wikipedia?
No, not me. I use and support it with a donation once in a while, but have not edited any pages there.
Thank you, I find it a great project. I imagine you do need to keep a close eye on things with editing being possible to anyone who simply registers an account, anonymous mostly.
We see reports of people doing edits and beign from IP ranges associated with Government or some times big businesses involved with the page's topic.
The other day someone from Environment Canada's domain did and edit and it was reported on the newspapers (a page about oil pipelines in Dakotas I believe).
@Full_marx
Govt interference is easy to spot if the edits :
1. Are unusually many;
2. Do not adhere to wikipedia's poicies; and
3. Come from connected IP addresses.
In fact wikipedia must be the role model of how a big govt must be run. Every edit, every discussion on every edit, when it was done, and who did it are recorded for eternity.
@design_RG @Full_marx There are people addicted to editing it, with thousands of well researched contributions. They also brave 'edit wars', etc - often fighting each other on which contribution should be kept, and which removed from the wiki. These people evolve elaborate policies for conduct and content, lengthy watchlists to monitor articles, and long lists of quality of citation sources.
Visit the Talk page of Jimmy Wales sometime.