On Mar 4, 2009, at 7:17 AM, Andrew Gray wrote:
> Ha. Tie this into Thomas's suggestion... > > ...print up a sheaf of business cards, with "Got a problem? info @ > wikimedia.org" in nice clear bold lettering, the puzzle-globe at one > edge; the other side just WIKIPEDIA writ large. Distribute them to > everyone who does PRish stuff... Great idea. But also, we simply must change the culture of those who see these things on wiki. For instance, today I declined a page protection request from an editor who saw a BLP subject making changes to their own biography. Amazing! A BLP subject sees factual errors in their biography, tries to change it, and rather than helping them through the changes or referring them to OTRS or anywhere, we're asked to protect the page from the changes since the subject's version was... wait for it... INACCURATE?! I know there may be COI issues, but it seems to me that for whatever reason there's this adversarial "us vs the subject" relationship that's been built up... it's so dangerous and potentially damaging. <sigh> </rant> ___________________ philippe [email protected] [[en:User:Philippe]] _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
