Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-06 Thread UQ0502
or get really snidy about it. i know someone who built his own page on wikipedia by starting to add to pages of magazines where he contributed or appeared, then slowly worked his way around it, leaving his name on pages with a missing page link, and anonymously posted a page about himself that

Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-06 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, UQ0502 uq0...@gmail.com wrote: or get really snidy about it. i know someone who built his own page on wikipedia by starting to add to pages of magazines where he contributed or appeared, then slowly worked his way around it, leaving his name on pages with a

Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-05 Thread Rob Myers
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM, lo...@resist.ca wrote: I added a simple, straightforward page for myself, DJ lotu5, so that I could help expand the knowledge about mixed reality performance art in wikipedia You don't need an entry in Wikipedia about yourself in order to add information to

Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-05 Thread xDxD.vs.xDxD
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Rob Myers r...@robmyers.org wrote: On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:42 PM, lo...@resist.ca wrote: I think that the solution to this is for those of us who understand new media art (etc.) to *organise* on Wikipedia and to help prepare articles about new media art

Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-05 Thread Tim Cowlishaw
On 5 May 2009, at 09:33, Rob Myers wrote: I think that the solution to this is for those of us who understand new media art (etc.) to *organise* on Wikipedia and to help prepare articles about new media art (etc.) to survive deletion reviews. +1 to this - and I'd be happy to help. In

Re: [NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-05 Thread helen varley jamieson
i totally agree with the organising - at the end of the day, keeping something on wikipedia is really about how many numbers you can muster who are prepared to vouch for something. thanks tim for volunteering to help. here are a few to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furtherfield -

[NetBehaviour] what makes a notable life? [wikipedia]

2009-05-04 Thread lotu5
Or a notable artist? Google does, apparently. Or Google News more specifically. I added a simple, straightforward page for myself, DJ lotu5, so that I could help expand the knowledge about mixed reality performance art in wikipedia [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_reality ] and the range of