Wikipedia page is live

[KenMonkey]

Nice! It's great we can share the wiki page!

[Ravid]

Great work and contribution in BitShares. Keep it that way!
Little tips from OpenLedger team are on the way.

Thanks, received!

[ivandev]

Great work and contribution in BitShares. Keep it that way!
Little tips from OpenLedger team are on the way.

[Ravid]

Thank you all very much for your appreciation, guys!

Awesome! Thanks, xeroc!

[xeroc]

[cass]

**EXCELLENT WORK** Thank you, please leave your bitshares account name, so people can tip you

yea for sure ... and woot woot ... i'm back again!

@Ravid : TOP NOTCH job - it would be my pleasure to tip for this (2 years not possible to get done) entry and your work.

[MarkoPaasila]

I don't think you can do that. But you can get a community-multisig to act as an escrow and release the funds to you as you propose.

[Ravid]

Oh my god, I just discovered I can create a worker from the regular wallet 

How do I realize the following salary model there: larger first payment and smaller following payments each month?

[oxarbitrage]

very nice work, i can contribute translating it to spanish.

[Ravid]

Anyone can provide suggestions for improvement and preferably post them here so everyone could see and decide on their relevance.
 If the worker thing works out, I'll add the approved ideas to the article (the material that gets into the article needs to be formulated in a specific way in order to be approved by the wiki mods and not put the whole article or chunks of it up for deletion, right now I think I became pretty good at it). If it does not then yeah, anyone can do whatever

Posted the announcement on steem, it haven't quite picked up yet.
Don't know much about beyond bitcoin and whaleshares.

[MarkoPaasila]

I would try to get paid by posting what you do onto Steem, and maybe try to get some whaleshares. You could also join the beyond bitcoin hangout to get publicity. I think you would get some tips if you politely ask for some. Maybe enough to compensate for your work. I will certainly give you a tip.

[MarkoPaasila]

Nice! I actually started to write it too, but never got it finished. Pretty much work. Glad you got it done, and also approved.

Can anyone contribute to improve the article? You have made a really good start, and I would be glad to participate.

[pc]

Good job, I think this deserves a reward.

[Ravid]

Thank you, added

[xeroc]

**EXCELLENT WORK** Thank you, please leave your bitshares account name, so people can tip you

[Ravid]

Hello everyone,

wikipedia page for bitshares is now live and can be found at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitShares

A little over a month ago I volunteered to get us to wiki and now finally managed to succeed. However, it took me much more time and effort than I initially was ready to put in.
So if you like how it looks and want me to continue working on it I would like to propose a worker (but I need help with creating it as I couldn't figure out how to do it myself).

Why do we need a wikipedia page
Three reasons:
1) wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on the Internet, being there could provide us with some increased exposure and maybe could help with the marketing.
 2) It provides credibility. There are a lot of people whose opinion about a product/company is greatly influenced by the wiki. One example are my father and brother, who were not convinced by anything until I showed them the article yesterday and now they are ready to invest.
3) This community has already expressed it's interest in such a page a few times on this forum.
Anyone could do it
 Anyone could, but noone did, for more than three years now. Although it is a free encyclopedia and everyone can create an account and attempt to publish whatever they want, getting approved by their admins is a lot of work, too much for it to be a hobby.

Work done
-Collecting materials, writing, editing to comply with their encyclopedic standards (TM)
-A lot of arguing with the admins - they are not too familiar with the crypto world, so the "subject notability" was an issue and it also  took me almost a week to explain that bitshares is not exactly a company, but a software
- As a bonus, I managed to convince the admins that several existing pages for other crypto projects (waves, digibyte, peercoin etc.) didn't meet the standards they tried to enforce on me, so the pages got tagged and may even be deleted in the future.

Planned work
-Page maintenance: protection from vandals, defence against admins in case if any issues arise in the future.
-Adding a translation to Russian and maybe Hebrew if deemed relevant.
-I am sure the community will have some suggestions for improvements and additional materials - I will review all of them and edit them in if they are relevant.

Moreover, I think that if this worker gets approved it will show others that there are additional ways to help the platform besides being a programmer and working with the devs.


If you think that there is no need for such a worker, I'll leave it as it is and won't bother you with that matter anymore.

Edit: as requested by xeroc my account name is egor-ravid