On 20 August 2010 18:00, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > Despite the media attention, I don't think the integrity of the > encyclopedias' content is in any danger at all, and I don't think this > is any sort of special case of activist attention. > > Wikipedia gets waves of activists and is used to dealing with them. > The ones who don't take the time to understand Neutral Point Of View, > their stuff gets removed. The ones who do, their stuff stays and their > cause gets accurately described and represented. Best case, we get > more good new Wikipedians.
Not really. Most groups find it incredibly hard to recruit activists to edit Wikipedia. Something on this scale is exceptional and worrying. > This applies to any activist for any cause whatsoever and has applied > at least since I started on en:wp in 2004. False. The LGBT mob would be the most obvious counter example. We've also never entirely managed to deal with the supporters of various gurus. > The advice I have for activists is: strict neutrality with excellent > citations will do your cause justice. Everything else will be removed. > > The broader advice is: there is no plausible attack on the integrity > of the encyclopedias themselves that is not already something we are > quite used to dealing with on a daily basis for many years :-) A large group of trained people who can use not-english sources. Thats novel. -- geni _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
