QUOTE(LuÃs Henrique @ Tue 3rd March 2009, 8:21am)
Hello … newbie here. What the initiation rites are?
I have found this message board by searching for online criticism of Wikipedia, after some weird experiences there. I am particularly interested in discussing the use of non-English sources in articles about history and society of foreign countries — especially Brazil —, and the existence of little cabals controlling those articles.
I'm Brazilian, 51, civil servant, have a History degree (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul), leftist political activist (Marxist, Workers Party), live in BrasÃlia, have lived in Porto Alegre and Rio de Janeiro. My main general interests are, in no particular order, military history, Marxist theory, technologic history, linguistics, fictional literature.
LuÃs Henrique
I had some rather bizarre experiences myself on the
Portuguese Wikipedia, as
User:JonAwbrey, after I discovered that some people had translated a few of my English Wikipedia articles there, and I went to help update them.
I never got clear on how many Portuguese Wikipedias there were, but they seemed to spend a lot of time fighting over dialect issues, even worse than UK vs. US idiots, er, idioms.
Could you shed some light on that?
Mods, please feel free split stuff off that doesn't belong on FAQ.
Jon Awbrey