On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude <[email protected]> wrote: > Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board member and researcher/writer > in South Africa has written an essay, "The Missing Wikipedians" about > systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and > topics pertinent to Africa and other diverse places/people. > > As an example, she cites the English Wikipedia article [[Makmende]] and the > deletion request made, biting the newbie. > > http://hblog.org/2011/02/16/the-missing-wikipedians/ > > Please read and discuss.
Author appears to be living in 2006 (deletionists vs inclusionists) and apparently this represents a clash between the two groups: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Makmende Where in practice it's a pretty standard if rather one sided AFD. > What might we do to help make Wikipedia a more > welcoming place for newbies Since they seem to be determined to read the listing on AFD process as deletion not much we can do. Some changes to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Article_for_deletion/dated perhaps but keeping it within the current length could be tricky. >and for such diverse topics? Drop a prompt to add sources into the article creation process and make adding sources easy. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
