Laura If this is a "VERY VERY important topiic", as you put it, then why don't YOU help, instead of joingng the knee-jerking squad? If you agree that it is a very important topic and you are apparenly a better journalist that me, why don't you do a better job rather than attacking the messenger?
Answer the folowing questions: Do we have problems? Are we tackling them seriously? Are we attacking the problems or attacking those who raise them? Rui On 1 August 2013 23:18, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 10:55 PM, Rui Correia <correia....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > Can you honesty tell me that you have not come across articles that are > > 'untouchable'? That you know they convey a view that is not entirely > right, > > but YOU and I cannot change it? Can you tell me that you have not come > > across editors who are hell-bent on preserving this or that article just > as > > it is? > > > > > I too am a journalist with my work published on two different continents in > print. I am also a social media metrics lover. As a journalist, I value > verifiable, fact based, neutral reporting. > > If you are making the claim that English and Portuguese Wikipedia are > doomed, I would love to see some verifiable, fact based, neutral oriented > data sets to support the claim, especially as this would imply systematic > bias on a large scale. You have pulled one article and non-neutrally > labeled it as a representative article for all projects. Yes, I know of a > number of articles and topics that are pretty much untouchable but this is > far from 99% of all articles on the project. (I would put the number at > probably 0.1% and that feels generous.) This feels like a sensationalist > claim (which I would normally say is trumped up by the media in order to > spin a story, but this is not a media story) based on one or two articles. > > Bad research. Bad reporting. There are ways to get attention to this VERY, > VERY important topic without resorting to sensationalist calls that have > little thoughtful documentation. > > -- > twitter: purplepopple > blog: ozziesport.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- _________________________ Rui Correia Advocacy, Human Rights, Media and Language Work Consultant Bridge to Angola - Angola Liaison Consultant Mobile Number in South Africa +27 74 425 4186 Número de Telemóvel na África do Sul +27 74 425 4186 _______________ _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
