Agenda for 20 May 2017

Danube Tower in Vienna.

Some guidelines

• Notability guidelines in Wikipedia (Значимость)
• Flagged revisions (Проверка статей)
• Page history (История изменений)
• https://www.showip.net/ (localise IP addresses and domain names)

The Donauturm Edit War

• Donauturm in Vienna (Danube Tower, Дунайская башня)
• "The Donauturm is a lookout tower." was changed to: "The Donauturm is a television and lookout tower."
• "[…] one of the most absurd clashes ever conducted in Wikipedia, filling pages full of insults and lecturings, reaching a length of more than 600,000 characters, as much as a book. It didn't take long and the discussion was no longer about the Donauturm. It was about the truth and about who had exclusive rights to it." (Mathieu von Rohr: Im Innern des Weltwissens, Der Spiegel 16/2010, quote transl. by FF)
• "The German Wikipedia had an approximately 600,000-character discussion about the suitable title and categories, as some authors, many of them Austrian, regarded the Donauturm as a mere observation tower. The Spiegel coverage of the issue cited a participant with 'On good days, Wikipedia is better than any TV soap'." (English Wikipedia)

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Homework (due 27 May 2017)

• Create account
• Identify an article gap in Wikipedia
• Start writing your article
• maybe upload a picture ("no copyrighted work without permission")