When editing on Wikipedia (and using
Firefox) use the built in
spell checker, it makes life so much easier on the other editors, plus if you're not native to a language, you can still write without spelling mistakes. (Dictionaries for Firefox can be found here: [
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When writing an article about something in your neighborhood, consider taking pictures of it and uploading them
free to use by everyone.
Observations
Quality over quantity, this is, after all, an
encyclopedia.
Anything that ends with "count" (e.g. editcount) turns quite a lot of people
on.
Wikipedia needs a
bouncer that redirects companies to the
Yellow Pages, as they seem to confuse them with Wikipedia.
Odd that the tiniest of creatures living on the bottom of
the deepest ocean and only ever seen by one person operating a
ROV are often considered more notable than a living person that was seen by millions of people, but nobody took the effort to publish about.