Wikipedia:2023 Wikipedia Razzies
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The 2023 Wikipedia Razzies |
It's been quite the year on Wikipedia. The first update to the interface in over a decade, new concerns about language-learning models, and disagreements about donations have all characterized the project's last 12 months. We've had some great triumphs, including over a hundred thousand new articles and hundreds of featured article promotions. But for each triumph, there are many, many failures, and it's those failures that are to be honored at the 2023 Wikipedia Razzies.
The Razzies, officially the
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Worst Editor
Winner: User:ClueBot NG
Runners-up:
- User:192.0.2.16 – For 16 years of failure to achieve.
- shared account.
- User:WP 1.0 bot – For trying to make 1.0 happen. It's not going to happen.
- (removed pending administrative action) – For demonstrating extreme gullibility.
Worst Article
Winner: Main Page
Just look at this mess. Despite clearly being placed in article space, this article completely fails to comply with even basic
Runners-up:
- 2 + 2 = 5 – For long-standing factual inaccuracies.
- Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphiokarabomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon – For containing long strings of gibberish text that editors refuse to delete.
- Microcerotermes cylindriceps – For being the insect microstub that crossed the line and just became too much.
- Syphilis – For being about syphilis.
Worst Policy
Winner: Wikipedia:Civility
Civility is a policy that only exists to censor the most dedicated editors. How are Wikipedians supposed to be productive if they can't even call each other names or make snide comments? Incivility makes editors more productive: it puts a fire under them and gets them ready for the long haul. If someone does something stupid, the only way to respond is to let them know just how stupid they are. Otherwise how will they learn? Any problem that can be solved with kindness
Runners-up:
- Wikipedia:Neutral point of view – For protecting the obvious leftist/centrist/rightist bias on Wikipedia.
- Wikipedia:No legal threats – For disparaging the American national pastime despite the fact that Wikimedia server are hosted in the United States.
- Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure – For hassling good, decent people that were minding their own business, trying to make an honest living as entrepreneurs.
- Wikipedia:Username Policy – For being a buzzkill. User:Sexgod_COVIDisaHOAX (WMF), we hardly knew ye.
Worst Essay
Winner: Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose
Not only does this essay have nothing to do with Wikipedia, but it went and gave a bunch of people the idea of stuffing beans up their nose. Now we've got to deal with injured Wikipedians undergoing bean removal procedures, cutting down on productive editing time. You shouldn't warn people not to do something that they didn't even think of, because then you're just putting ideas in their heads. Now that's a good idea for an essay. It's for this reckless spread of bad ideas that this essay is the worst essay of the year. Congratulations, Wikipedia:Don't stuff beans up your nose.
Runners-up:
- Wikipedia:Fart – Obvious vandalism.
- Wikipedia:List of bad article ideas – For putting bad ideas in people's heads (there should really be an essay about not doing that).
- Wikipedia:No, you can't have a pony – For its stance on ponies.
- Wikipedia:Why Wikipedia is not so great – For hurting the feelings of Wikipedians everywhere.
Worst Portal
Winner: All of them.
As they do every year, all portals tied for last place. Congratulations, portals.
Worst Site Feature
Winner: Talk pages
Talk pages may have sounded like a good idea when they were implemented. A dedicated place for editors to collaborate while working on an article? Brilliant! But it quickly became apparent that this is not what they are for. Talk pages have been usurped by the so-called "editors" who use them only to complain about "sources" and "neutrality". Talk pages stop you from making the edits that you want to make, even when you
Runners-up:
- Special:CreateAccount – For handing out accounts to unqualified users.
- Fundraising banners – For asking for money.
- Vector 2022– For adding too much white space and causing a general hubbub.
- Visual Editor– For dumbing down editing.
Worst Noticeboard
Winner: Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents
Was there ever any doubt? There's a reason why
Runners-up:
- Wikipedia:Contributor copyright investigations – Here is a list of 5,000 articles, on topics you haven't researched before, which may or may not contain copyright violations. Please could you get all of them checked ASAP. Cheers! Need we say any more?
- Wikipedia:Education noticeboard – For providing no meaningful education.
- Wikipedia:External links/Noticeboard – For acting like it's as good as the BLP and NPOV noticeboards.
- Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab) – More like the bad idea lab.