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Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by stennie »

According to the page edit history, this humorous article was created in 2004 and has continued to evolve since then with 400+ edits (including updated stats for 2020). I often describe my Wikipedia experience as the "largest MMORPG I've played", and this article does an excellent job of fleshing out the comparison.

Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by haunter »

Good comparison tbh. MMOs are one of the most toxic game genre (only topped by MOBAs) and that perfectly fits to the holier than thou attitude of the majority of editors

Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by libraryatnight »

stennie wrote: post #2

According to the page edit history, this humorous article was created in 2004 and has continued to evolve since then with 400+ edits (including updated stats for 2020). I often describe my Wikipedia experience as the "largest MMORPG I've played", and this article does an excellent job of fleshing out the comparison.

Hilarious stuff, great Saturday afternoon reading. thank you

Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by fireattack »

haunter wrote: post #3

Good comparison tbh. MMOs are one of the most toxic game genre (only topped by MOBAs) and that perfectly fits to the holier than thou attitude of the majority of editors

I'd say MMO only won this over some competitive genres games like FPS is because people in these games don't have time to type.

Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by Insanity »

fireattack wrote: post #5
haunter wrote: post #3

Good comparison tbh. MMOs are one of the most toxic game genre (only topped by MOBAs) and that perfectly fits to the holier than thou attitude of the majority of editors

I'd say MMO only won this over some competitive genres games like FPS is because people in these games don't have time to type.

Plenty of time to do so when waiting to respawn in e.g counter-strike

Re: Wikipedia is an MMORPG

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

haunter wrote: post #3

Good comparison tbh. MMOs are one of the most toxic game genre (only topped by MOBAs) and that perfectly fits to the holier than thou attitude of the majority of editors

And just as some people somehow manage to play MMOs every waking hour of the day even as ordinary people would have e.g. a job and a family, so Wikipedia has editors who somehow manage to edit all day every day. I have been active in Wikipedia since shortly after its founding and I am quite familiar with all processes and standards, but I have had edits reverted simply because my edit history struck the obsessive editors as too casual; if I wasn’t editing constantly around the clock like them, then I was seen as too low-quality an editor for my edits to stand.
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