Internet presence

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Not only was I able to spend this weekend with a productive Federal Committee Meeting, but I was — surprisingly — once again confronted with the topic of “own” internet presence. This time it was about the website of the EUROPA-UNION on Wikipedia.

With Wikipedia becoming more and more important, I also started to get involved, and this was still in the noughties. Since I'm definitely not an encyclopedist, I initially only pointed out obvious errors or inconsistencies. Then, in 2009, I began to write my own corresponding article for the first time and added an entry to the EUROPA-UNION Heilbronn to Wikipedia. In 2010 I was a bit annoyed when my post was deleted again because it was irrelevant, because a few days of work was just wasted on it. The only consolation was that I was told that other posts about our movement were also deleted because they were also irrelevant.

So I continued to limit myself to adding to existing posts and happily continued to correct them. Only, and this to my great chagrin, my additions to UEF topics were deleted or changed again more and more often.

In 2020, I was even pleased that the relevance criteria on Wikipedia had been relaxed and that new contributions to the EUROPA-UNION could be found. So I took the opportunity and wrote another relevant, well-founded and very detailed article on EUROPA-UNION Heilbronn. Unfortunately, shortly afterwards, I realized that there were people more equal than me on Wikipedia, and my post was deleted again — this time, however, without the possibility of discussion or a defense, because, as I did my right, which Wikipedia granted to everyone else wanted to take advantage of the reply, a "super user" deleted my post immediately.

This raised the question of whether I couldn't use my time more sensibly and I decided to only maintain existing contributions, at least as long as they are still available on Wikipedia.

That's why I was a bit surprised yesterday when Wikipedia became a topic again in our association: apparently the relevance criteria are now being viewed a little more narrowly - which, more than a year later, affects me only extremely peripherally.

In any case, it fits my current thinking, namely to save what is superfluous and to combine what is necessary better, ie in terms of efficiency. Ultimately, it is the time that slips between our fingers far too easily every day, which we will all ultimately miss.

And so I not only deleted one or the other website, but also started to move relevant content. That's how you can find them since today Hertenstein talks on this weblog — a huge time saver for me and also a small contribution to environmental protection.

Next, the forums of the European regulars' table will probably undergo a major change - initial talks are already taking place.