It begins by describing what the company is, who its primary audience is, and how large it is. While details like the fact that it's the largest African-American-owned broadcasting company and one of the highest-earning African-American-owned businesses in the United States are impressive, they are stated objectively and cited properly to avoid the appearance of self-promotion.
Wikipedia requires significant coverage in multiple independent sources for articles on organizations to be considered noticeable — a requirement which Urban One has easily met. Towards the bottom of the page you'll find a references section with over 54 entries. Nowadays, a quick Google search provides us with an abundance of information — including social media profiles, directories, and press releases — on a given subject. By ensuring you have an up-to-date Wikipedia page, you're covering your bases and giving viewers a trustworthy source of information related to your business or brand.
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The entry on the famous locomotive the Flying Scotsman is 4, words long and includes eye-wateringly detailed information on its renumbering, series of owners, smoke deflectors, and restoration, from contributors who seem to have the most intimate, hard-won knowledge of the train's working.
Pedantry this powerful is itself a kind of engine, and it is fueled by an enthusiasm that verges on love. Many early critiques of computer-assisted reference works feared a vital human quality would be stripped out in favor of bland fact-speak. But while accuracy binds the trust between reader and contributor, eccentricity and elegance and surprise are the singular qualities that make learning an inviting transaction.
And they are not qualities we associate with committees. Pedants have a reputation for humorlessness, but for Wikipedians a sense of humor is at the core of the good-faith collaboration that defines the project. It is prone to vandalism by fire, and the article centers around an exacting timeline that lists the date of destruction, the method of destruction, and the new security measures put in place every year since Why do Wikipedians perform these millions of hours of labor, some expended on a giant straw goat, without pay?
Because they don't experience them as labor. This is why the meta side of Wikipedia—the Talk pages, the essay commentaries, the policies—is suffused with nerdy jokes. But expressing the directive that way carries a purpose. Few architects of a world encyclopedia would think to include a forum for jokes, and in the unlikely event that they did, no one could anticipate that it would be important.
But on Wikipedia the jokes are very important. They defuse tensions. They foster joyful cooperation. They encourage humility. They promote further reading and further editing. They also represent a surprise return to the earliest days of Enlightenment reference works. If it is a mistake to keep comparing Wikipedia to Britannica , it is another kind of category error to judge Wikipedia against its peers in the internet's top Wikipedia ought to serve as a model for many forms of social endeavor online, but its lessons do not translate readily into the commercial sphere.
It is a noncommercial enterprise, with no investors or shareholders to appease, no financial imperative to grow or die, and no standing to maintain in the arms race to amass data and attain AI supremacy at all costs. At Jimmy Wales' wedding, one of the maids of honor toasted him as the sole internet mogul who wasn't a billionaire.
The site has helped its fellow tech behemoths, though, especially with the march of AI. Wikipedia's liberal content licenses and vast information hoard have allowed developers to train neural networks much more quickly, cheaply, and widely than proprietary data sets ever could have. He was enthralled with the online encyclopedia's content but felt frustrated that users could not ask it questions that required drawing on knowledge from multiple entries across the site.
If there were some way to tag women and mayors and cities by population size, then a correctly coded query could return the 20 largest cities with a female mayor automatically. Instead, he chose numerical codes. Any reference to the book Treasure Island might be tagged with the code Q, for example, or the color brown with Q But of the 80 million items that have been added to Wikidata so far, around half have been entered by human volunteers, a level of crowdsourcing that has surprised even Wikidata's creators.
Editing Wikidata and editing Wikipedia, it turns out, are different enough that they don't cannibalize the same contributors. Wikipedia attracts people interested in writing prose, and Wikidata compels dot-connectors, puzzle-solvers, and completionists. Its product manager, Lydia Pintscher, still comes home from a movie and manually copies the cast list from IMDb into Wikidata with the appropriate tags.
As platforms like Google and Alexa work to provide instant answers to random questions, Wikidata will be one of the key architectures that link the world's information together. There are subprojects aiming to itemize every sitting politician on earth, every painting in every public collection worldwide, and every gene in the human genome into searchable, adaptable, and machine-readable form.
The jokes will still be there. Consider Wikidata's numerical tag for the author Douglas Adams, Q That wink of self-awareness—at the folly and joy of building something as preposterous and powerful as a world brain—is why, with Wikipedia, you know you are getting the best possible information. When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small affiliate commission.
Notability guidelines are possibly the most subjective part of Wikipedia, and are the subject of many of the discussions that take place behind the scenes, in what Wikipedia calls Talk pages. I strongly encourage you to set up a Google alert for yourself. When articles are written about you and your work, create a PDF of the article and include it—as well as a link and citation—on a well-marked section of your personal website.
This will help future editors access content from verified sources to help with their article. To help your own website show up towards the top of Google search results when a future editor goes hunting for information about you, you can take a few steps. Using a domain name for your website that features your own name can help as well for example: yourname.
Another really important way to contribute to Wikipedia is by adding media to the Commons —a collection of 45,, freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.
Content added to the Commons must bear a Creative Commons license. Wikimedia offers a pretty awesome upload wizard for this purpose. Adding media to the commons is helpful when creating a new article, but you can also search the commons for media that has already been added that supports the subject.
This means that it is within your power to add your own image, or images of your work, to the commons right now. In doing so, you are adding to the public domain and providing resources for editors who want to work on your page. And this way, you have the power to choose the type of commons license that you feel most comfortable with for images of you and your work. When people search your name, Google makes it possible to narrow the results down to ones with open licenses. Sometimes edits are good, but sometimes they can be biased, unflattering, or any number of other things.
The risks of being on Wikipedia include the risk of bad edits being added to your page. There is also a risk of a Wikipedia administrator removing the post about you for a variety of reasons. For example, if another editor suspects a conflict of interest, or a bot picks up on plagiarism, the article will be nominated for deletion. There is also always a risk that when women, transgender, and non-binary people are profiled online that it can lead to online harassment.
Wikipedia takes harassment very seriously and in addition to the non-Wikipedia related consequences to these actions, users found guilty of harassment will be blocked.
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