You could try to get Jodie Foster to notice you in some newsworthy way.
You could assassinate Putin, you would even get a statue and a park in your name.
Start a band and do that until you get on the billboards, do an interview and casually eat leftovers out of a Tupperware while wearing a possum costume with a sash that says “John Locke was right” and refuse to elaborate.
Liberate East Timor.
End global climate change.
Become a YouTube sensation with your Vlogs detailing every load of laundry you do while singing dubstep remixes of Chinese translated Yugoslavian nursery rhymes.
Invade tik-tok with clips of you screaming at inanimate objects with googley eyes on them, they aren’t even your real father.
There was a time when the page for list of serial killers had a banner on it asking users to expand it. That’s one avenue.
Oh, I’m DEFINATELY one of those!!!
Yeah, fruit loops, cinnemon toast crunch, frosted flakes…hell, I’ll even get down with some raisin bran, and kill that bowl!!!
…is that not what we’re talking about?
Do something “Notable” then add yourself.
If it wasn’t for this rule, Wikipedia could have become myspace.
Notability seems key. I used to build a software project that was pretty well-known, but I was not. I had a page on Wikipedia for about an hour, I think. ;-)
Commit a high profile crime.
Becoming a victim of one also works.
Yup that’s the easiest!
This is an interesting question but it also made me ponder something related. It makes sense for Wikipedia to focus on only notable people, but why not create a WikePeople or something that aims to be comprehensive about every person we can find information on? Or does something like this exist already?
This is, like, textbook dystopian. Most people value their privacy at least to some extent and probably wouldn’t take kindly to being documented in a public central database largely outside of their control.
True I guess maybe it should be opt in although honestly I think online privacy isn’t going to be all that possible going forward. Depends on how strict the government wants to be but it’s pretty hard to control.
Facebook and LinkedIn sort of do this and they are complete shitshows.
Right but I was thinking with a similar rigor and citation system as with Wikipedia. So it’s pretty different in practice.
I see what you mean, I think. It would be convenient to be able to look people up in a modern equivalent of “Who’s Who” in a central location, instead of trying to find people scattered all over the web. However, I wouldn’t want to be on there myself, and would worry employers would make it mandatory. Some employers already reject candidates for having no social media.
A valid concern. I was more thinking it would be interesting if to have a comprehensive biographical database for people who have died. That way they won’t be forgotten as most people of the past have been. But I’m not sure how to create that without violating the privacy of the living.
With genealogy. But living people are [hidden].
It’ll be the next ancestry.com !
Who’s who
You know every Wikipedia user has a user page(s) they can put whatever they like on? It’s not in the article namespace, but if you just want to put info about yourself somewhere on Wikipedia that’s the easiest way.
Worth noting, however, that there are also rules on using one’s user page as a promotional piece. It’s much more loose obviously than the criteria for what goes in an article, but you absolutely will get smacked if you use your user page exclusively for advertising.
Easiest way is to die a noteworthy death
Aim for the volcano…
…or the bushes.
I’m not a doctor or lawyer or wiki moderator.
Create it and cite publically available sources.
Wikipedia nerds are way too obsessive. They’ll delete it unless the person is noteworthy
Depends on who you are.
If I wanted to, I could probably get an article about me on there within about a week — I know some editors, and have third party documentation of me on the Internet going back over 30 years. So I’d just have to ask someone to do a writeup, pointing to the notable things I’ve done.
However, I prefer anonymity so it’s unlikely I’d do that.
All it would take is one notable contribution to popular culture to get yourself added.
Easiest way to start if you’re an absolute Internet Nobody would be to get yourself written up by a local newspaper. Then do a bit of SEO so that popular online sites link to things about you and what you’ve done. Then get a few other people to start asking Wikipedia editors why they can’t find out anything about you on Wikipedia when you’re all over the Internet.
Time was you could just post one, but then all the teachers had to be like “Wikipedia isn’t a source” so society decided to say “fuck you, teach.”
UIm I guess message the mods to let you become a poster or whatever and just write the living shit out of yourself. Then use words that link to others and boom you are golden.
