[Foundation-l] Flagged Revisions, Report on german WP

2009-02-15 Thread P. Birken
Hiho, there have been some significant developments on de-WP, which I would like to share with this list. On February, 4th, all articles of the german WP had at least one sighted revision. Since then, only pages newly created by noneditors have to be looked at. On average, around 1.000 pages

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-02 Thread P. Birken
I applaude that the foundation wants to do something about problems with BLP. In several countries, the success of wikipedia is so great, that it has become the number one source for information. This in turn means that we as the wikimedia movement have a huge responsibility and stepping up to

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-03 Thread P. Birken
2009/3/2 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: So, two questions strike me: 2) When it comes to the German Wikipedia and other language versions which put an unusually high priority on quality . I am curious to know what quality-supportive measures (be they technical, social/cultural, or

Re: [Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

2009-03-04 Thread P. Birken
2009/3/4 Sue Gardner sgard...@wikimedia.org: 2009/3/3 Michael Snow wikipe...@verizon.net But someone making a request is a sign that the article really needs a hard look, and quite possibly should be removed for not meeting our standards. So the reversed presumption of default to delete,