This is bad news! -----Original Message----- From: WikimediaZA <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Douglas Scott Sent: Donderdag 27 Augustus 2020 14:46 To: wikimediaza <[email protected]> Subject: [Wikimedia ZA] Fwd: [MoveCom] Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020
Hello everyone, Here is a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation about some recent notable goings ons within the Wikipedia community. Regards, Douglas. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Adora Svitak <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 at 01:34 Subject: [MoveCom] Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020 To: Media Report <[email protected]> Wikimedia Foundation Media Report: August 26, 2020In today's media report, the alarming discovery that many articles in Scots Wikipedia were created by an American teenager without a solid command of the language; fifty volunteers have signed up to enrich Arabic content on Wikipedia Sept. 20-27 through a Saudi Center for Digital Content program; a teenager created a Wikipedia page about a 56-year-old camp for children with communication or social learning challenges; and much more. - August 25 Scots Wikipedia Gizmodo - Alleged Teen Brony Has Filled the Scots Wiki With Thousands of Fake Translations https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/alleged-teen-brony-has-filled-the-scots-wiki-with-thousands-of-fake-translations/ - "Earlier today, Reddit user Ultach wrote a fairly lengthy post about an alarming discovery. In it, they described that Scots Wikipedia has a notorious reputation for being inaccurate with regard to vocabulary and grammar. Ultach claims that Scots Wikipedia was poorly spelled English with a few Scots words thrown in here and there. Out of curiosity, they checked the Wikipedia’s edit history… and lo, apparently one person had created and edited roughly a third of Scots Wikipedia’s 60,000 or so articles." - *Related Stories:* Kaldata - Почти цялата версия на шотландската Wikipedia е написана от американски тинейджър https://www.kaldata.com/it-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B8/%D0%BF%D0%BE%D1%87%D1%82%D0%B8-%D1%86%D1%8F%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D1%88%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-wikipedia-343136.html Enriching Arabic content on Wikipedia Al Khaleej Today - 50 volunteers register to enrich Wikipedia’s Arabic content https://alkhaleejtoday.co/saudi-arabia/5035102/50-volunteers-register-to-enrich-Wikipedia%E2%80%99s-Arabic-content.html - "Fifty men and women have registered as volunteers to enriching the Arabic content in Wikipedia, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said on Monday. The registration comes within the volunteering work platform of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development, in cooperation with “WikiDowen.” It is one of the projects of the Saudi Center for Digital Content of the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives (Darah). The volunteerism opportunity aims to enrich the Arabic content in Wikipedia by creating new articles in the encyclopedia, or developing and translating existing articles, in the historical and cultural fields, monuments, archaeology and development. These volunteers will from Sept. 20 – 27." Disability representation on Wikipedia Beaverton Valley Times - Amazing Kids: Beaverton teen is all about representation https://pamplinmedia.com/bvt/15-news/477889-386265-amazing-kids-beaverton-teen-is-all-about-representation - "Camp Meadowood is a nonprofit camp in Eastern Oregon for kids ages 6 through 14 with communication or social learning challenges. After Jenell's experience there, she decided it wasn't enough to merely attend — she wanted to be part of the aiding process as well. She started by creating a Wikipedia page, explaining the history and functionality of the 56-year-old camp." Allegations of bias Stefczyk - Wikipedia tubą propagandową radykalnej lewicy? Redaktor próbował zmienić imię “Margot” na Michał – edycję cofnięto i zagrożono mu banem https://www.stefczyk.info/2020/08/25/lewicowa-wikipedia-redaktor-probowal-zmienic-imie-margot-na-michal-edycje-cofnieto-i-zagrozono-mu-banem/ - "Is Wikipedia a leftist propaganda mouthpiece? More and more people are asking similar questions about the popular online encyclopedia, and many Internet users have considerable reservations about its objectivity. Readers of this website more and more often look in its articles to refer to leftist sources, theories or points of view, rather than to objective facts. Proof of this can be a discussion between Wikipedia editors about one of the articles devoted to the "Stop Nonsense" collective, as well as the actions of the administrators of this site in this regard." Sports Daily Record - Ex-Leeds man Eoghan Stokes asks Airdrie fans to judge him on the pitch, not his Wikipedia page https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/local-sport/ex-leeds-man-eoghan-stokes-22576647 - "“But they are looking at stats on a Wikipedia page, they are not looking at me playing football. They are not seeing a player who is playing on the left or centre midfield, they think I’m playing up front and wondering why I’m not scoring 30 goals a season. “I think Stuart knows what I’m all about, where I’m going to play and what my best position is, so I’m happy with that." Wikipedia and SEO Flipweb - Pasting your website link on Wikipedia does nothing for your SEO https://flipweb.org/pasting-your-website-link-on-wikipedia-does-nothing-for-your-seo/2620 - "Everyone wants to rank his or her page on Google. To do so, there are many types of options which are available for the owner of the website. People try various types of options to rank their page on Google. One of the recent cases were to use Wikipedia so that you can include backlinks of your website in it. Wikipedia is a wide source of information and is very popular among students. Although, Wikipedia is a very reliable source of information this cannot be used for SEO purposes. If you edit the Wikipedia page and add your website link in it then it will be of no use." - *Related Stories:* Online Marketing - Google bestätigt: Links von Wikipedia liefern keinen SEO-Mehrwert https://onlinemarketing.de/news/google-links-von-wikipedia-kein-seo-mehrwert Adora Svitak (she/hers) Communications Specialist Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Media Report" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. 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