On Jul 17, 2014 2:25 PM, "Carlos Monterrey" <cmonterrey(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Hi all,
Here is today's proposed SM for the The Signpost WikiProject report blog
post.
Thanks for reviewing:
Blog post:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
SM calendar:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Social_media/Calendar#July_18
t: @Wikisignpost talks with members of WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of
North
America. Read more of the interview here:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
Don't start with another Twitter handle:
Members of the WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North America talk with
@WikiSignpost:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
t: WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North America
aims to improve
underrepresented articles on Wikipedia:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
What kinds of underrepresented articles?
t: See what motivates editors to be part of
WikiProject Indigenous
Peoples in a recent report from the @Wikisignpost:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
t: Encompassing more than 7,000 articles, WikiProject
Indigenous Peoples
editors are really motivated, find out why:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
Romanticized history? The more than 7,000 articles and counting from
WikiProject Indigenous Peoples seek to change that:
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
f/g: WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North America
participant Maunus
decries the state of coverage of Mexican indigenous people and
aims to
improve it. "There are some articles on the Spanish Wikipedia of very high
quality, mainly because of the work of one editor, but likewise there are
other articles that are of poor quality, with either romanticizing or
discriminatory undertones."
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
f/g: WikiProject Indigenous Peoples of North America
seeks to improve the
coverage of indigenous people on Wikipedia, especially articles
of Mexican
indigenous people, whose articles sometimes are "romanticized." Read more
from a recent report from the Wikipedia Signpost.
https://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/07/17/wikiproject-report-indigenous-peoples…
--
Carlos Monterrey
Communications Associate
Wikimedia Foundation
+1.415.839.6885 ext 6881
www.wikimediafoundation.org
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