Submitted 3 weeks ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
Start a YouTube channel where you go around trying to get people to sign your petition to give you a Wikipedia page. If you got big enough, eventually you would get a Wikipedia page. Wikipedia wouldn’t even have to accept the petition; it might be a bad precedent to set that people can get a page just by submitting a petition. Instead, they could give you a page simply because you became mildly famous for trying to brute force yourself onto Wikipedia.
[There are 1,121,817 living people with Wikipedia pages]. There are more than 8 billion people alive today. That means about 0.014% of people have Wikipedia pages.
I’m in wikipedia because I was included in the special thanks category of a movie. (not a full page, but thought it was cool.)
LOTR?
This is probably not the kind of response you want, and it’s going to be a serious downer for everyone, but the first person I thought of was Kathy Change:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Change
Thankfully, I was not a witness to it, but I was working for Penn at the time, and I remember passing her dancing at 34th and Walnut many times.
Like almost everyone else, I paid no attention to what the dances were protesting. When I found out about her concerns after her death, it seemed like such a tragically doomed effort even back in 1996.
Of course, now we’re all hopelessly burning the entire world down, and I still don’t really expect anything to change.
What a badass.
make documentary movie where you want to be on wikipedia page and interview random people what they think of it, add it to some amateur documentary movie festival, hope it’s accepted, publish festival page from that year with movie list, add your movie to the list, add wikipedia page with your movie, the end
Much easier to self-publish some ahitty novella on Amazon, then make its Wikipedia page and your own author page.
You don’t want one. There was one about me once, but I managed to get it deleted. Good riddance.
Wikipedia requires you to be "notable" according to their definition. Here are some of the criterias that may be used depending on the category. Theoretically, only one is enough, but you also needs reliable and independent sources to prove it.
As others have said, making dumb records is probably the easiest ways. If you're music people, starting an obscure/local variation of another genre could be a thing. Making a randomly specific movie can be another relatively easy way. Books can be a solution too, if you get a way to get people to talk about it.
Academics
- Research having an impact (demonstrated by independent reliable sources)
- Receiving an award/honor
- Member of some scholar society with exclusivity
- Having a major position in the university (like a named chair)
- Being in the top members of an academic journal
Music
- Being studied in detail by notable written sources
- Have a single/album on a national music chart
- A record certified gold/higher or Win or be nominated for a major music award or win first, second, or third place in a major music competition.
- 2 or more release on major record label
- Ensemble/band with 2 or more notable musicians
- Be the most prominent representatives of a notable style, or of a local scene of a city
- Be placed in rotation on a national broadcasting
- Perform music for a notable work of media
Books
- Being studied in detail by notable written sources
- Win a major literary award
- be considered by reliable sources as a significant contribution to sciences, humanities, art, political or religious movement.
- Has been subject of instruction in 2 or more schools/college/uni
People
- Being studied in detail by notable written sources AND not being notable only for a single event
- Have a well-known and significant award/honor
- Have an entry in a standard biographical dictionary
- Be widely cited by peers in your area of expertise
- Having originated a sginficant new concept, theory or technique
- Be a important criminal
- Have multiple roles/involvments in notable works of art (TV/music/theater/etc)
- Held international/national/province-wide offices or part of legislative bodies OR an important local political figure with significant press coverage
- Get rewards as a sport people
Excel at something good, beneficial to society somehow -
Any hobbies? How about breaking a record?
I didn’t realize there were so many “largest collection of _______” records.
Some of these are clearly expensive collections but then some of them are like:
She looks so happy with her collection
I had to look up wine cans. Lol Learned something new today.
The one person I’ve met IRL to have a Wikipedia page (as far as I know anyway) got one from writing books and arguing with people (as in like formal debate type ones), so maybe becoming an author? It’s not exactly easy but it’s not unattainable for the typical person either I wouldn’t think.
You can get a world record for something super niche in which only you or only few people compete.
Just create an user page.
Make your own and save it before it gets taken down lol. But they probably don’t let new users add new pages to the main site without a review.
If you’re autoconfirmed (account more than 4 days old with at least 10 edits), you can create new pages without going through the drafts/approval phase first. But they would still usually be swiftly deleted if not following policies and guidelines.
Reality TV. Being young and attractive are key factors. Being a contestant on Survivor or something.
Combat sports, if your fights are on TV. Talent is not required, but being young and athletic are important. At the low end of the sport are regular people who drive cabs. If you can beat 5 of them, being 5-0 is probably enough to justify a page.
Go do something remarkable.
Help make the world a better place. Like people on BBC “people fixing the world” Normal people fixing something small for a better world
Do something stupid and entertaining that makes the news
Wiki allow anyone to edit. So, just make one page
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Write it yourself.
EmilyIsTrans@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
You can’t edit Wikipedia pages on a topic to which you have a close connection/conflict of interest.
Also WP:Notability
JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Which is funny because it routinely happens as well as nation states hiring small teams that start edit wars occasionally IIRC.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Won’t last long, but it satisfies the requirements.
TehBamski@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you have a few or more references, then it has a better chance of surviving on Wikipedia. Otherwise, it’s considered low quality/importance.
NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com 3 weeks ago
I did this and they removed it and I reposted it and then they threatened to ban me lol
Granted this was decades ago when I was a teen, but I doubt they have changed.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s much different now, you’d be banned without discussion.