Do you wiki?

Wikipedia is rapidly becoming a major reference for people doing online searches, unfortunately because of it’s peculiar nature.. it’s a place where those who shout loudest get heard (although now that I think about it that doesn’t sound very different from real life).

Anyway before i digress, I’d just like to make an appeal to those of you with knowledge of history, religion and culture to get out there and participate in the process. I was going through their featured articles section (those articles which wikipedia recognises as well written) the other day ..have a look at whats missing from the religion section.

Angkor Wat · Anno Domini · Bahá’í Faith · Bible code · Early life of Joseph Smith, Jr. · End times · Father Damien · Greek mythology · Hinduism · History of Buddhism · History of the Jews in Poland · Hebrew calendar · Holy Prepuce · King James Version of the Bible · Names of God in Judaism · Noah’s Ark · Nostradamus · Papal conclave · Papal Tiara · Fred Phelps · Presuppositional apologetics · Revised Standard Version · Shakers · Shroud of Turin · Space opera in Scientology doctrine · Xenu

Basically no direct reference to Islam …in the whole world there is not one article Muslims have managed to collectively write which is of standard..besides Islam there is plenty of work needed on things ranging from prominent Muslims overseas..or if it’s more your forte on Pakistan history or geography..improvements on sections dealing with your hometown or district, questions about language and culture etc.. or hell maybe even an entry about paklinks or even desi cuisine..

Simply put..do you wiki? well if you are smart enough start..!

Re: Do you wiki?

A guppy mercenary2k has done a great job writing a detailed wiki article about all aspects of Pakistan’s armed forces. http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=210598

But youre right people need to start posting more articles on islam. Do they have to be written from scratch or can we copy paste existing articles of reference to wiki?

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Theres alot of bakwas about pakistanis thanks to our indian bhaijaans too!

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I maintain the our orginizations page at WIKI: Disaster preparedness and response team as well as contributing on the USAR page.

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One does not use wikipedia

thankyou

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chee: Copy and pastes have copyright issues, but all writings should be referenced...even if it's one line where you recommend books or reference material or external links on a place that'll do..

bts: Good for you we need more people like you contributing to wikipedia..

tmx: Thats true but you can't blame Indians for that..If you are active on wiki you can challenge the accuracy of whats happening. The better referneced work the more unchallengable it is..I recently edited some stuff on the East Pakistan and Indians had grossly exaggerated figures of deaths in 1971..debates on the issues with refernces have been done on this site before I don't see why facts like that can't be challanged quite easily.

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Great work Zakk!