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
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Date: Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 1:56 PM
Subject: [Publicpolicy] Introducing the public policy site
To: Publicpolicy(a)lists.wikimedia.org
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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
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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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