I very much agree, Emily. I wonder if this time,
perhaps all the
(wonderful and timely) media coverage of Emily Temple Wood's efforts to
create new articles may have influenced organizers and/or participants?
Perhaps it created a bit of a consensus, conscious or unconscious, that
*creating new articles* was the main desired result.
If so, this might be a bit of a one-time anomaly, may not indicate a
need for major changes.
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Emily Monroe <emilymonroe03(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
In general, creating articles are very difficult.
The learning curve is
steep, and it may be best to have people expand/improve articles instead of
creating them.
From,
Emily
On Mar 12, 2016 11:48 AM, "Ryan Kaldari" <rkaldari(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> I find it disappointing that so many of the Art and Feminism
> editathons end up focusing almost exclusively on creating new articles for
> artists at the hosting institution. Not only does this lead to a high
> percentage of the articles being deleted, but it's a waste of a huge
> opportunity to create and expand articles about artists and artworks with
> unquestionable notability and high encyclopedic value.
>
> I have no doubt that many of the Art and Feminism articles that are
> nominated for deletion are nominated due to gender bias (as some of them
> seem rather trivial to find sources for and improve), but many of them are
> also legitimately on the notability borderline. At all of the Art and
> Feminism editathons that I've volunteered at, I've discouraged people from
> creating articles about people they knew personally, and encouraged them to
> use the lists at
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
> instead. If you are helping to run an Art and Feminism editathon, I would
> also suggest doing this, as it provides more value for Wikipedia and leads
> to fewer deletions. I would also like to encourage everyone to edit the
> lists at
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminism/Tasks
> and help keep them full of good suggestions. Editathons are a great tool
> for addressing the gendergap, and I would hate for them to get a reputation
> for just being self-promotional events.
>
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Carol Moore dc <
> carolmooredc(a)verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Someone should write a letter to the editor of the those 5 or 6
>> publications that came in my google alerts on the topic of the edit a thon.
>> (Search news google to find them.) And of course deal with the few
>> legtimate complaints and the trolls with nonsense complaints.
>>
>>
>> On 3/12/2016 10:17 AM, Neotarf wrote:
>>
>>> All the articles created at Regina ArtAndFeminism event have been
>>> tagged. Ten of them have been submitted for deletion.
>>>
>>>
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Regina/ArtAndFeminism_2016/U…
>>>
>>> For example, see comments here:
>>>
>>>
>>>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Risa_Horowitz
>>>
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