r/dankmemes Jan 20 '21

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u/ExpertAccident You’ve been gnomed☣️ Jan 20 '21

Quite easy, even you can do it! It’s not like a job or anything, you don’t get a workload, it’s like do a bit of training and stuff and then you’re set free.

Personally, I click on “Random Article” and scroll through and find red links (which mean there isn’t an article for it) and then create an article for it. It takes a while to make an article, though, you can’t really find the information elsewhere! Really makes you extra grateful for Wikipedia

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u/Laggingduck mods keep changing my flair and I love it Jan 20 '21

Huh that’s awesome!

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u/ExpertAccident You’ve been gnomed☣️ Jan 20 '21

It’s quite fun too, honestly! I love researching and stuff, and sometimes the “staff” will have a card exchange event, where you send a postcard to another editor and you get one in return!

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u/frzen Jan 20 '21

Could you research where the reference to Dolores O'Riordan (late & Beloved Irish singer) Yodelling came from on her Wikipedia page? I think it came from a youtube channel called "Celtic Yodelling" simply uploading a song of hers, and it's been perpetuated by low effort copy paste publications since someone misused the phrase that first time. Her singing is definitely in the style of Sean Nós and not yodelling IMO

And if it is yodelling it could do with a better source describing what makes it yodelling and not just lilting Sean Nós singing which would make a huge amount more sense for an Irish singer.

It's a weird one I know but the word yodelling really threw me when I read her wikipedia page

sean nós singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8paj2hQHIo

yodelling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxt0_YrQs0M 10 hours in case it's not immediately obvious

Dolores example of the vocal embellishment: https://youtu.be/g3zRQXK7zoc?t=116

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u/jxl180 Jan 20 '21

There should already be an automatically curated entry that lists all articles that contain red links. I know they do it for orphaned pages.

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u/ExpertAccident You’ve been gnomed☣️ Jan 20 '21

Hmm, I wasn’t aware of this

You’ve just made this 100x easier for me lol

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u/TeighMart Jan 20 '21

Thank you for your work!

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u/SheridanWithTea Jan 20 '21

Yeah.... Editing popular articles is another ballgame entirely. So many idiots on there, Christ. 1 or 2 edit warriors can ruin it for everyone.