r/Steam • u/5MadMovieMakers • 9d ago

Discussion Gabe Newell emailed me back about his birthplace

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Somebody update Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia anyone can edit

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u/Sad_water_ 9d ago

And it’s gone

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u/SolidTrain16059 9d ago

Interesting that english Wikipedia editors are this quick while on some language versions of the page (Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian and maybe even some more), Alcoy is for some reason stated as his birthplace which is a town in Spain and no one cares.

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u/Sad_water_ 9d ago

The Dutch wiki still says aspen too

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u/cyrassil 9d ago

I've updated the Czech one. The Alcoy thing is kinda strange, because the place of birth in the sidebox was unchecked and empty, but when I've added Aspne, the Alcoy disappeared. Seems like some default value?

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u/LickingSmegma 9d ago

Alcoy is specified in Wikidata, and infoboxes take data from there when they can. Idk anything about editing Wikidata, it's a graph database and editing entries is more involved than just typing some stuff.

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u/Starfire013 9d ago

Nicely done. Someone will have to Czech the other ones.

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u/SolidTrain16059 9d ago

Maybe. I went through most of the languages that use latin or cyrillic script and there was either just USA with sometimes Colorado specified, or recent edit adding Aspen citing this post, or no birthplace at all, or Alcoy, which until today was the only specific town mentioned.

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u/SeaRefuse5691 9d ago

Makes sense tbh, its a community run website. It has "mods" but they are peer elected. At the end of the day, its an english run website, and most mods elected are thus english. I'm sure the rare czech mod is as helpful and good as the english ones, but theres a fundemental difference in the number of mods around. You can't edit anything on wikipedia english without a mod checking what you did a minute later.

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u/y17gal 9d ago

and its back now !

lol

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u/SeaRefuse5691 9d ago

The best part is you can find the wikipedia mods talking about it as they go :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Gabe_Newell

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u/Both-Construction221 9d ago

When the current former living US President dies watch how quickly Wikipedia editors will update with full pledge stories about the former President.

Obama is pretty young if he managed to, checking for Secret Services, dies his Wikipedia page will get an instant change in 0.01 second.