I’m sure many of you where taken aback by Facebook’s newest feature, Chat. It will be interesting to see how successful this is. I for one think the way Facebook releases new features is a bit curious. They release the new feature and then a few days later put a post in the mini-feed about. I think they would have less backlash against change if they gave more of a warning about their features before they released them.
But regardless I thought Wikipedia should know about this new feature. So I did this and this. It will be interesting to see how the community takes my changes. I might add footnotes later, but I couldn’t find any news articles on Facebook chat yet.
I also made a change on the blogger, Andrew Sullivan’s page.
So my facebook changes got deleated by a user who’s made over 20,000 edits. The issue was that I didn’t site a source. I agree that it’s troublesome that I didn’t cited a source, but the media hasn’t picked up on facebook chat yet. What to do?
I’d go onto the user’s talk page, tell him that the feature is live in FB but not described in the FB blog yet, and suggest that the only source is the site itself. See what he says…
oh facebook chat: i actually have to admit that it’s one of the only new applications of facebook that i like because its fulfills the purpose of facebook: which is a site that functions as a social networking tool. It is not a site to play with ninjas or buy someone fake drinks.
Kudos to you facebook creators. Now just ban the bumper sticker application and you may regain your dignity.
Update: I found a source for Facebook chat, Facebook’s help website. So I did this: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Facebook&diff=204051280&oldid=204049459 . It was interesting or me to have to figure out how to use citations.
I wonder if the changes will stay now…
Nope!
Hope everyone else is watching this discussion as hard as Ross and I apparently are. Whoops. WP’s version of fisticuffs. As my int4rwebz-y friends would say, “no U!!!!”
I give George major props for finding something tricky that other folks out there have strong opinions about. It’s giving the whole class an opportunity to flex our policy-arguing muscles.
Edit: …unlike my sad Twelfth Night page.