Jimbo Wales — on a bed of lettuce
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I’d quoted Valleywag in the story but, “Sorry, Dude,” said Durova in a p2pnet comment post.
“Valleywag missed the irony. I created that pic as a barb at their tabloid reporting.”
I’ve been known to mess with a pic or two myself and Durvova and I subsequently exchanged a few e-mails on the subject.
Now she’s been at it again, as per the pic on the right, catchily entitled ‘Saturn devouring a Philadelphia cheese steak with Jimbo Wales’s head on a bed of lettuce.
Triple Crown Awards
Durova, real name Lise Broer, is a Wikipedia editor and, “Just about everyone who visits Wikipedia sees Wikipedia’s main page, which has various sections including ‘Today’s featured ‘ and ‘Did you know?’ (from Wikipedia’s newest articles)’,” she told me, going on:
“Our Triple Crown Awards are a thank-you to editors who create that stuff. This month marks the awards’ one year anniversary,” and she says she keeps on creating new awards to help inspire Wikipedians to improve the site.
Wikipedia recognizes six different kinds of featured content, from articles and pictures to sounds and portals, she states, continuing:
“Each type of featured content goes through a rigorous community selection process. These are the best of the best; less than 1 in 1000 articles are recognized as featured. A slightly larger number of articles get recognized as ‘good articles’, which is one step short of featured.
“I first got the inspiration after a site arbitration case when an editor who had come under formal sanction wrote a new article that got onto Wikipedia’s main page. I gave him an award called a barnstar. He loved it, so I offered him a second barnstar if he wrote a good article.”
That got her thinking:
- featured content
- good articles
- ‘Did you know?’ entries
“All of those are selected independently by fellow editors and have strict standards,” she says. “If somebody gets all three of them, we could have an award for that.”
More than100 editors have earned Triple Crowns since then and, “Some are such gluttons for punishment that they come back for more,” which inevitably inspires Broer to, “create a new carrot to dangle in front of people”.
The most fun so far, she says, was the special edition awards for WikiProjects, groups of editors who get together with shared interests to improve a particular area.
She’s Photoshopped a crown onto a koala bear for the Australian project and *The Simpsons* effort was awarded —- a crown on a donut.
Broer, who’s created dozens of new articles and nearly 40 pieces of featured content, reserves one special Triple Crown for editors who, “make good contributions after a legitimate return from a site ban.”
Anyone can make a mistake, she says, so,”It’s important to have a route back to good standing.”
From now on, she’ll be contributing regular items on the Wikipedia.
Stay tuned 
Jon Newton – p2pnet
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