Of course, the problem is that there are so many paid writer/activists, often sock puppets, who work daily to promote certain agendas and tarnish the reputations of those who agree with those agendas.
I found this writing about the Israel-Palestine conflict, some war/peace issues and economic issue, as well as libertarian issues. Many worked together in little cliques to harass and bully those they disagreed with. Even some of the most obvious sockpuppets were allowed to keep working because they knew how to butter up enough admins. I managed to survive them for many years, til they joined up with the anti-Gender Gap Task Force crowd. But many men - and of course women who get even more abuse - quickly give up.
I hope this project can attract lots of people, but until the paid and secret socks issue is dealt with, many of those who seek to promote neutral info, as opposed to partisan propaganda, will be driven off.
CM
On 9/2/2015 3:17 PM, Sydney Poore wrote:
This is significant since good public policy work can make easier for all women around the world to have access to Wikipedia to read and edit, to have less concerns about censorship, and to protect the privacy of women who want to edit on controversial topics.
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Stephen LaPorte* <slaporte@wikimedia.org mailto:slaporte@wikimedia.org> Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:56 PM Subject: [Publicpolicy] Introducing the public policy site To: Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org mailto:Publicpolicy@lists.wikimedia.org
Hi all,
We wanted to let you know about a new site that we launched to support your work on public policy and communicate how public policy affects the Wikimedia projects to advocacy groups (https://policy.wikimedia.org). The site includes position statements on access, copyright, censorship, intermediary liability, and privacy. We hope that it will make it easier for advocacy groups to collaborate with the Wikimedia community on issues within these areas.
You can read more about the site in this blog post: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/09/02/new-wikimedia-public-policy-site/
Thanks, Yana & Stephen
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