2009/3/2 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: > From what I can tell, a lot of subjects of BLPs that have problems > with their articles don't complain at all. The accounts I've heard > (or, at least, my interpretation thereof) of Wikimedians being > approached at events by people with bad articles have all been along > the lines of "my article is rubbish, how do I get it fixed?" not "my > article is rubbish and I've been trying to get it fixed but nobody is > listening to me". That suggests that those subjects that don't happen > to meet a Wikipedian never actually complain. There are two possible > explanations for that that I can see: 1) They don't really care all > that much and the complaints we get are just opportunistic moaning or > 2) they have no idea where to even start with complaining. While there > may be some cases of (1), I'm sure (2) is a significant factor.
I would guess it's mostly (2), in my experience. People have no idea who to contact. The "Contact Wikipedia" link on en:wp's sidebar doesn't seem to catch their eye - though it gets you to the right answer in three further clicks. Perhaps it should be on the page you hit immediately. (My usual answer: "Email info at wikimedia dot org, that's wikimedia with an M. It'll get funneled to the right place. All other ways of contacting us end up there anyway." This seems to work a bit.) - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
