(crosspost)
Hi all, just in case you had missed the announcements
elsewhere, this research project [1] focuses on the South
Africa primary school curriculum: the involved teams have
selected a list of 100+ relevant articles which will
undergo review (or creation) by Wikipedians,
scholars/experts, or journals. We thought that involving
the Wikipedia community was the obvious first step in the
process, which is going to last for the next couple of
years, so please take a look now at the project page on
en.wiki [2] to learn how to join our efforts.
The next deadline for article review is *March 15*!
User:Alfhild-anthro already reviewed the article about San
healing practices; would you do the same for any of the
following pages?
Sexism — Domestic violence — Gender stereotypes —
Transport in South Africa — Bicycle — Khoikhoi — Republic
of South Africa — Coal in South Africa — Water supply and
sanitation in South Africa — Water privatization in South
Africa — Healthcare in South Africa — Nelson Mandela —
Apartheid — Oliver Tambo
Or maybe you'd like to take a look at the expert reviews
posted at [3] or [4] and use them as a guide to improve
the related articles?
Thanks a lot for what you will do,
Elitre (WPS)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Elitre_(WPS)
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Wikipedia_Primary_School_SSAJRP_pr…
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_South_Africa/Wikipedia_…
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mapungubwe_Museum
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:San_rock_art
Just relax it's no big deal. The check users are usually quit reasonable than admins. If there's no evidence of violations the images are going nowhere.
BR
-Masssly
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Now reported for copyvios. I'm now before The Hague of Wikipedia.
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There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own
policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone
or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for
its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see
close to bottom of page)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde…
explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000
views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that
make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance
whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them
without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do
those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird
activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots
and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
@Rexford
And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's happening...
-Masssly
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</div>And those elephants, instead of spending time chasing the not so good articles and high level crappy images on Wikipedia, they rather go on easy prey and articles relating to celebs not well known, of course because persons like myself are toothless and won't have anything to do.
Something I always envisioned happening as long as the whole of Africa has no Wikipedia admin to turn around decisions like these.
You know, its hard to think Africanish, if you weren't born as one.
Those elephants are interested in the unnecessaries and instead take fun in deleting articles with so much potential
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:08 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right?
On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is that one of your policies too !!!
I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.
One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!
I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde… explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.
They are nominated for deletion.
An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.
"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.
Just saying.
Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.
Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?
I'm in flames here!
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I have submitted a presentation about the Wikipedia Primary School project for Wikimania 2015 in Mexico City.
https://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Are_we_really_an_educa…
we have been working for 1 year now on the project making a pilot in South Africa and we trust the experience is starting producing a new methodology and it can be replicated. it would be great to have your feedback to make it better.
basically what we are working on is to review articles, involve scholars and getting the South African primary school content improved on Wikipedia (sometimes content is already good, often the summery is not clear, sometimes articles are missing and other times examples and content is not very international). Some of the articles selected are probably relevant for several curricula around the world and it would be great to test the experience in other countries.
if you are interested in the topic please sign up to support the presentation. and join the discussion online or at Wikimania if possible.
thanks
iolanda
