Sam Blacketer wrote:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
Do we need affirmative action in favour of articles about Africa?
No because we already have this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Countering_systemic_bias
Which
Thomas Dalton just volunteered for something. Anyone got favoured VA
exhibits we don't have a pic of? Get back to him with room,
collection, cabinet, etc :-)
- d.
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From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com
Date: 2009/12/5
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l]
I'd like to work out some way of advocating the missing article
lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp:
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED
http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been writing new stub articles just from those in the past couple
of days. It reminds me of how and why I got hooked on writing
David Gerard wrote:
I'd like to work out some way of advocating the missing article
lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp:
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED
http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been writing new stub articles just from those in the past couple
of days. It reminds me of how and
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to work out some way of advocating the missing article
lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp:
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED
http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been writing new stub articles just from those in
2009/12/5 altally altal...@googlemail.com:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:35 AM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to work out some way of advocating the missing article
lists to potential new contributors. On en:wp:
http://enwp.org/WP:WANTED
http://enwp.org/WP:MISSING
I've been
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I personally think we are at the stage where we should be spending time
improving what we have, rather than creating more work. We aren't low on
articles.
Which would be a personal decision, indeed.
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:30 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
And we have lots of articles, but there are plenty of areas in dire
need of improvement. We didn't have [[euphonicon]] until I wrote it
yesterday. (Using book references - specifically, the Amazon scans!)
Music in
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
(I happen to think that starting by improving existing articles is probably a
better training,
and certainly an easier one. The question is how to motivate newcomers, to do
that or
anything else.)
The
2009/12/5 Carl (CBM) cbm.wikipe...@gmail.com:
The difficulty I see for newcomers improving existing articles is
that, as newcomers, they don't know which things they can change and
which things they should leave alone.
[snip examples of highly-discussed wordings]
Any article relating to
Carl (CBM) wrote:
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
(I happen to think that starting by improving existing articles is probably
a better training,
and certainly an easier one. The question is how to motivate newcomers, to
do that
I'd think that'd be a good idea. Part of the problem I observe as a
new page patroller is that younger Wikipedians will often write rather
silly or childish articles. Maybe if we can add a line to the end of
the deletion and You wrote a problem article notification templates
advertising
Emily Monroe wrote:
I think some
mottos of the day would also be a good idea.
There is [[Wikipedia:Tip of the day]], which I had rather lost sight of.
The sequence of new tips seems to have been revamped at the end of 2008.
Could be combined with mottoes of the day, no?
Charles
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009 17:03:04 +, David Gerard wrote:
People are a problem.
The solution, as I believe Bender said on Futurama, is Kill All
Humans!
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