What? No Wiki?
"No page with that title exists."
That's the message you get if you search Wikipedia for Brummana High School. How is it possible that the world's largest online user-contributed encyclopedia has no entry for BHS?
As you may know, Wikipedia is a wiki site, meaning that its content is wholly created, maintained, and edited by users. Yeah, regular every day people like you and me are the authors of that site. And that's its beauty. As a collaborative effort, it also has group review. If information is incorrect or misleading, it can — and is — corrected by others. Wikipedia is so dedicated to this idea that you don't even have to have a log in to make a correction. (Of course, some other person can come behind and correct you. But, again, that's its beauty, keeping everyone honest.)
A missing BHS article in Wikipedia is an even bigger missed opportunity because I've noticed that site is given extra weight in search engines like Google and others. Frequently, the results I get on all kinds of searches will list a link to a Wikipedia article near the top, if not the very first entry.
Sure, it would be easy enough to grab the history of the school from the OSA site and plug it on Wikipedia. But I think that's against their rules of plagiarism.
So, I'm looking for volunteers to help with the creation, editing, and continuing monitoring of an article for BHS. Who's up for being a part of this project? Any other suggestions related to this idea?
NOTES:
These are three articles I've found in Wikipedia related to BHS:
1. Teddy Bear Alliance (see also #2)
2. Dom Joly (a possible BHS alumnus of the seventies)
3. And oddly, a French -- but not English -- article for Theophilus Waldmeier. (Here's an automated and rough translation of that page to English by Google.)
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