Thanks Martjn,
yes, that is what I am saying, people are willing to submit trivial
data for the hope of becoming famous,
because WP is now the number one web page, instead of deleting it, I
say, lets process it.
I have been studying the speedy deletion data for the past days,
tuning my program, of course there is a lot of junk in there, but it
seem that something similar is happening with the indian subcontinent,
many pages are just being deleted because why would some actor or
doctor in india or pakistan ever be notable for the western world.
But if you ever wanted to study the culture of that area, such
articles would be useful. If you wanted to encourage editors from that
area, then it is better to thank people for the data instead of
deleting it.
For my work in kosovo, trying to find contributors is very hard and
having a way to collect data for free is great.
Also I am interested in free software and it seems that many free
software program articles are also being deleted, I am happy to have
copies of them.
thanks,
mike
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 6/25/12, Martijn Hoekstra
<martijnhoekstra(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What's wrong with "Hi, thanks for your
stuff. It didn't belong here,
so we put it there for you" rather than "Hi, you put stuff here that
didn't belong here. Bad user. Find an admin that will email your stuff
for you through a murky procedure, so you can put it there yourself"?
I should have been clearer that if people want to spend their time
doing that, fine. But there are other things on Wikipedia that need
doing more urgently. Trans-wikiiing or moving stuff around is
laudable, but is a sideshow to the core aim of producing and improving
the quality of the online encyclopedia (as opposed to the online
travel guide or hotel guide or whatever). The problem is that this
sort of exhortation tends to fail when a volunteer workforce is
involved. And I am aware that it is possible for different online
freely licensed sites to work together in synergy, exchanging material
as needed, but it still feels like a distraction from the core
activities.
Carcharoth
Maybe I'm misreading the thread, but I think that Mike was proposing
to use the wiki for deleted articles he set up to use this information
to move it over to OSM. I was slightly amazed that this seemed to be
received as a bad idea in Carcharoths post. I am not suggesting that
any administrator or editor *should* do this, but it should be
applauded, ot at least shouldn't be discouraged if an editor does do
that.
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