On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
A feature to improve the curating and presentation of these links
might be handy. We have a few places were having a set of links as
a first class member of the wikiverse would be
Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
A feature to improve the curating and presentation of these links
might be handy. We have a few places were having a set of links as
a first class member
On 2 Apr 2010, at 11:21, Charles Matthews wrote:
Carcharoth wrote:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Charles Matthews
charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
* interlanguage and interproject links to a set of articles
about the
same topic
On the final point, the
Michael Peel wrote:
There does seem to be a possibility for a bit of lateral thinking here.
If, say, the current external links and interwiki sections were done by
transclusion from something separately maintained (a set of pages
organised by both language and topic?), how could that be
A PR agent should be able to learn how to write a neutral article, if
they see one aspect of their role as to provide information about
their client, not necessarily to directly promote them. In the fields
I work in, I have frequently worked with PR staff, and about half of
them have proved open
That's right. It isn't that we don't want an article and a skilled PR
editor ought to be able to write an article the average editor could not
tell was written by a PR person. The clue to bad work is lifting stuff
from the company's website. And, of course, the complete absence of any
negative
They may presume that the presence of stuff that hasn't yet been
de-pufferied (I made that word up) means that what they write will
stay. But the key point is lack of control. If you put something on
Wikipedia, you cannot control the content and that is what a lot of
people fail to understand. It
I think continued monitoring of an article by a skilled PR operative
would result in an informative, well-referenced article, which notes, but
does not dwell on negative aspects. As noted, such an effort would have
to integrated with our usual editing patterns.
Here's the question: If you can't
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:40 PM, David Goodman dgoodma...@gmail.com wrote:
A PR agent should be able to learn how to write a neutral article, if
they see one aspect of their role as to provide information about
their client, not necessarily to directly promote them.
Yes. Treated properly,
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:58 AM, Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
I'm not sure about bot-seeded and maintained topics. You need to have
the human editors to go with that. Having bots doing stuff *without*
humans working with them and complementing them, tends to be a recipe
for
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