The longest ever editathon

Posted on Twitter  by WMF

Wikimedia Polska (@WikimediaPL) broke the Guinness World Record for the longest ever edit-a-thon, by editing @wikipedia_pl  for 100 hours nonstop! The Wikimedia Poland team was inspired by the past record held by @Wikimedia_MX  (72 hours). Congratulations, team! Gratulacje!   🥳

A hundred hours nonstop? Is this a good thing?  And did anyone proofread the articles?

It seems the WMF values projects that create articles at scale, even if individual Wikipedians have other values. Sort of a production floor philosophy.  Look at WiR. No one can find fault with it, even if it’s not the sort of thing they want to participate in themselves.   I think a lot of people would rather see Wikipedia as a hobby or user’s group. After all they are volunteers, and doing it in their free time, for pleasure, the way people read books or even kiss for pleasure.  But always there is this manufacturing model that creeps in. So we have our de-stubification events, our competitions, our metrics. And the so-called “criticism sites” set up for paid editing that love to publish hit pieces against nobodies without so much as a reference.