SweetNightmares

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This user lives in the Canadian province of Québec.

This user participates in
WikiProject Quebec.

enThis user is a native speaker of the English language.

fr-4Cet utilisateur parle français à un niveau comparable à la langue maternelle.

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This user likes to translate articles from French to English.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Geography.

This user is a member of
WikiProject Mountains.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Rivers.

This user knows that Wikipedia has become too bureaucratic.

“ Even if all the formatters quit the project tomorrow, Wikipedia would still be immensely valuable. For the most part, people read Wikipedia because it has the information they need, not because it has a consistent look. It certainly wouldn’t be as nice without one, but the people who (like me) care about such things would probably step up to take the place of those who had left. The formatters aid the contributors, not the other way around.

Wales is right about one thing, though. This fact does have enormous policy implications. If Wikipedia is written by occasional contributors, then growing it requires making it easier and more rewarding to contribute occasionally. Instead of trying to squeeze more work out of those who spend their life on Wikipedia, we need to broaden the base of those who contribute just a little bit.

Unfortunately, precisely because such people are only occasional contributors, their opinions aren’t heard by the current Wikipedia process. They don’t get involved in policy debates, they don’t go to meetups, and they don’t hang out with Jimbo Wales.

” — Aaron Swartz, Who Writes Wikipedia?

Recommended reading

The following essays, while extremely pessimistic, offer valuable insight into Wikipedia and its ills.

• Nine reasons why women don't edit Wikipedia (in their own words) by Sue Gardner
• There is a cabal
• Why Wikipedia is not so great (vs. its opposite)
• Discovered reasons given for leaving Wikipedia
• A 2006 interivew with Jimbo Wales in which he denies that Wikipedia is victim to astroturfing, although recent evidence points to the contrary
• A guide to ethically editing Wikipedia for businesses

To do

• Reorganize and revitalize WP:QC

Clean up/streamline "to-do"

Create auxiliary features, namely a welcome template

• Magog, Quebec

+ Economy, geography, expand history

• Bas-Saint-Laurent
• Improve Red River of the North and translate it into French
• Translate Lennoxville into French
• Translate Chic-Choc Mountains
• Translate the many articles in L'Islet from French
• Complete translation of Montmagny, Quebec

Tasks

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Citing sources : Articles with unsourced statements, BLP articles lacking sources, Articles lacking in-text citations, Articles lacking reliable references, Articles lacking sources, Articles needing additional references, Articles to be expanded with sources Cleanup : Articles needing cleanup Disambiguation : Articles with links needing disambiguation Expand : Articles to be expanded Geographical coordinates : All articles needing coordinates in Quebec Merge : Articles to be merged NPOV : NPOV disputes in Quebec Orphans : Orphaned articles in Quebec Photo : Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Quebec Split : Sections to be split, Articles to be split Stubs : Quebec stubs Update : Wikipedia articles in need of updating in Quebec Verify : Wikipedia articles needing factual verification Other : clean-up listing for Quebec

Tools

• Link finder for orphaned articles
• Expand references
• Disambiguation solver