On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
That was after the article was speedy deleted three times and the fourth time. They finally recreate the article with the edit summary "Introduction of this superhero character -- this is not vandalism" Then, Ethan Zuckerman blogged about this and chimed in on the article's talk page, surely drawing attention and support in the AFD. http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/24/makmendes-so-huge-he-cant-fit-in-wikipedia/ > > 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. > Before speedy deleting, how about tagging the article for needing sources, leave the author a note on their talk page, and not be so quick to delete? Cheers, Katie > > -- > geni > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
