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Free Speech

I notice that the page on Wikipedia is not editable. I think this is an outrage, and a repression of free speech. Fix this now. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tylercombs (talk • contribs) 11:42, 19 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

How exactly does this impugn free speech? 76.92.135.68 (talk) 00:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I do not believe this is repression free speech. Reasons because you have the ability to suggest edits here, and because you are allowed to speak you mind here. If you have a edit or change you would like to see occur, this is where you put it. --xXSc3n1cXx 13:18, 22 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by XXSc3n1cXx (talk • contribs)

Yes, and perhaps too many people speak their minds on this particular article. Just as any owner of real estate has the right to prohibit trespassing on their property, Wikipedia has the ability to make certain articles uneditable by anonymous and unaccredited users. It is actually laughably easy to get the ability edit this and other semi-protected articles. To edit Wikipedia, one simply needs to have an account at least 4 days old with at least 10 edits. In other words Tylercombs, you just need 9 more edits and then you can edit this article to your heart's content (providing that you, of course, do not vandalize)!

Oh, and one more thing. Demanding that we "fix this now" does not help...

Ojay123 ^{(Talk•E-Mail•Contribs•Sandbox)(Respond on my talk page!} 23:32, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Countries

Moved to Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Countries

Link for "volunteers"

The first paragraph says "Wikipedia's 13 million articles (3 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers," and "volunteers" links to the [[Volunteer|general volunteer page]. I think it should link to the [Virtual_volunteering|virtual volunteering] page instead, since these are specifically online volunteers, rather than traditional onsite volunteers, especially since Wikipedia is one of the largest examples of virtual volunteering. Comment by: User:Jcravens42

Beta version of Wikipedia

Wikipedia article does not contain any information about the new beta feature nor any content about wikipedia's future. Wikipedia staff should do something about this.

Servers in Korea decommissioned?

According to Wikitech [2] [3] and Ganglia, there are no longer Wikipedia servers in Korea, though even Meta-Wiki hasn't been updated and there seems to be no up-to-date server layout diagram.

New Chapter

Dninyo (talk) 20:51, 13 March 2010 (UTC) There should be a chapter in this article about donations to Wikipedia. How this started and where these donations from readers go to.[reply]

Wikipedia as an organization.

Good day,

While Wikipedia is a project in itself, it should be considered as an organization. Wikipedia was created by people, was grown by people, and is maintained by people. Therefore, I propose the Wikipedia article include some or all of the following:

1. A general description of Wikipedia as an organization.

2. An organizational chart based on the current organization.

3. The number of members (e.g. editors) that are part of Wikipedia.

4. A graph showing the number of members of Wikipedia per year.

Finally, I suggest including statistics and graphs of the users of Wikipedia, by year and by country (or region). Users are also important since they are like customers for the "Wikipedia organization".

Best regards,

Luis R. Villegas H. México.

--LuisVillegas (talk) 04:01, 19 March 2010 (UTC) wikipedia is a free encyclopedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.69.245.53 (talk) 14:44, 29 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

this article is complicated

i can't read this article it's waaaaay too complicated. WikiYoung27 (talk) 03:16, 25 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What are you talking about? If it is hard to read, you should try it on Simple English Wikipedia

Ojay123 ^{(Talk•E-Mail•Contribs•Sandbox)(Respond on my talk page!} 23:35, 2 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

What happened in March 2009?

http://stats.grok.se/en/200903/Special%3ASearch Did people just stop using wikipedia as much. Or did whatever counts as special:search change? Every month before it's like 15 million a day and every month after it's like six million a day. The change happened on March 25 and March 26. Please leave me a message as I'll forget to look for this. WAIT, I can just watch this page... Daniel Christensen (talk) 22:06, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Village pump? ---> Rehevkor ✉ 22:09, 1 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Squille, Caserta, Italy —Preceding unsigned comment added by Campagnano (talk • contribs) 01:06, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm.

No mention of Certain Recent Events. Very interesting. --Larry Sanger (talk) 01:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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+== Hmm. ==
+No mention of Certain Recent Events.  Very interesting. --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] ([[User talk:Larry Sanger|talk]]) 01:44, 9 May 2010 (UTC)