Goodbye Wikipedia
2025年5月31日In the past decade, I actively used and promoted Wikipedia, and donated to it. However, the community is going more and more unfriendly to newbies. I created new articles on English Wikipedia, which were as good as ones I wrote on Chinese Wiki. But these contributions were reverted on English Wiki, due to short articles, insufficient notability, not an improvement, to name but a few. Appearently, the standard of English Wikipedia is so high that new articles on English Wikipedia could qualify “Did you know” articles On Chinese Wikipedia.
In a nutshell, I quit all mediawiki projects and withdrew my finicial support. I now don’t bother to fix typos or make minor improvements on any Wikipedia site. I devote more time to write on my personal blog, publish my research papers, and make contributions to open source software.
[…] Despite treasure of knowledge that I recommended my friends to read and contribute, Wikipedia now demands high-quality articles from the onset, alienating new contributors. The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit is no longer in the mindset that an article is created by someone and improved it by crowdsource. Now, a single user is asked to create a “Did you know” article in the standards of the past. If a user is not paid to give a birth to the article, the requirement bar will make users bail out. Chinese Wikipedia nevertheless is less susceptible to this because its articles are far less than English Wikipedia. (Goodbye Wikipedia) […]