<p dir="ltr">Ask him. I've copied him.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Rexford | Africa Center | <a href="http://wikiafrica.net">wikiafrica.net</a> | sent from Tab</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 13, 2014 3:57 PM, "Sandister Tei" <<a href="mailto:sandistertei@gmail.com">sandistertei@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<p dir="ltr">I don't want forget Rupert like last time. Will signing as PLanning WIkimedia GHana be enough?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards,<br>
Sandister Tei<br>
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Cardiff University<br>
JOMEC -- International Journalism<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 13 Jan 2014 11:14, "Sandister Tei" <<a href="mailto:sandistertei@gmail.com" target="_blank">sandistertei@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">PLANNING WIKIMEDIA GHANA RESPONDS TO GOVERNMENT’S STATEMENT ABOUT WIKIPEDIA</span></p><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This is in response to a recent publication by</span><a href="http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.1657562" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(34,34,34);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">citifmonline.com</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> on January 10th, 2014 about the Government of Ghana struggling to edit information on the Wikipedia page for Ghana.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Planning Wikimedia Ghana</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> as a volunteer group has been working for almost 3 years to encourage the use and contribution of Ghanaian content to Wikipedia. We also help other global editors to update content and clean-up inadequate information about Ghanaian topics.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">From the publication, Minister for Information and Media Relations, Mahama Ayariga said: “It came to our attention indeed and my colleagues have tried to edit and take out some of the misrepresentations there but they tell me that subsequently whoever it is that is bent on misrepresenting Ghana’s image globally went back and re-edited,”</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Wikipedia is a wiki, meaning content is </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">written by any volunteer, (collaboratively) with others.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">While writing, important basic rules apply:</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. RS, reliable sources, see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. NPOV, meaning neutral point of view, see </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. COI, conflict of interest editing, </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest</span></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Where these rules are not applied by an editor, other editors and administrators do their best to </span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">correct that edit when notified.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The information on Ghana's article about corruption has been sourced unfortunately. Unless the credibility of the source is challenged or an update about “economic corruption and economic crime” in Ghana appears, it will remain. However the language was somewhat generalised and one sided.</span></p>
<br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">As Ghanaian Wikipedians, we have looked into the matter and the rules that apply. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Currently, Wikipedia has put the article under some protection from unconfirmed users.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We would like to point out again that as WIkipedia is a wiki "permanent arrangements" cannot be made to keep information static. But Planning Wikimedia Ghana will </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">organise an editing session to clean up the article and also choose a member of our community to monitor the article for a untruthful and biased information.</span></p>
<br><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">The government can move to support this effort. </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is used and created by global contributors. Ghanaians can help better the quality of information on Ghana there and that is one of the objectives of Planning Wikimedia Ghana has. Find out more about PWMG </span><a href="http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"> </span></p>
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<span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Follow our recent publications on </span><a href="http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">our blog</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"> and </span><a href="http://www.oralofori.com/2014/01/q-with-founding-member-of-organization.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue';background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">about us</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">.</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"></span></p>
<br><br><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span></span></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Regards,</div><div>Sandister Tei</div><div>-----</div><div>Cardiff University<br>
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