pickens's Journal: Writing for Wikipedia has its Perks

There are many tasks on Wikipedia. Some people fact check. Some people control vandalism. Some people correct spelling and punctuation. The activity that I most enjoy is doing the research to write in-depth articles for Wikipedia. I like to find a musician, an actor, a politician, or a scientist that I am interested in learning more about and write their biography from scratch. Last week my wife and I went to a concert by one of our favorite singers, Marie Daulne of Zap Mama. We wanted to get a photograph of her to put into the Creative Commons for the Wikipedia article so we went backstage after the show to meet her. Read my blog post on what happened after I told her that I was her Wikipedia biographer. Caution, this may not work for U2 or the Rolling Stones.

Awesome

[Captain Splendid]

It might not mean much in the greater scheme of things, but that blog post encapsulates the very promise and reach of the web. Keep up the good work.