I don't want forget Rupert like last time. Will signing as PLanning
WIkimedia GHana be enough?
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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Cardiff University
JOMEC -- International Journalism
www.sandistertei.com | +447448223686
On 13 Jan 2014 11:14, "Sandister Tei" <sandistertei(a)gmail.com> wrote:
PLANNING WIKIMEDIA GHANA RESPONDS TO GOVERNMENT’S STATEMENT ABOUT WIKIPEDIA
This is in response to a recent publication by
citifmonline.com<http://www.citifmonline.com/index.php?id=1.1657562>on
January 10th, 2014 about the Government of Ghana struggling to edit
information on the Wikipedia page for Ghana.
Planning Wikimedia Ghana <http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.com/> as a
volunteer group has been working for almost 3 years to encourage the use
and contribution of Ghanaian content to Wikipedia. We also help other
global editors to update content and clean-up inadequate information about
Ghanaian topics.
From the publication, Minister for Information and
Media Relations, Mahama
Ayariga said: “It came to our attention indeed and my
colleagues have tried
to edit and take out some of the misrepresentations there but they tell me
that subsequently whoever it is that is bent on misrepresenting Ghana’s
image globally went back and re-edited,”
Wikipedia is a wiki, meaning content is written by any volunteer,
(collaboratively) with others.
While writing, important basic rules apply:
1. RS, reliable sources, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Identifying_reliable_sources
2. NPOV, meaning neutral point of view, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
3. COI, conflict of interest editing,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Conflict_of_interest
Where these rules are not applied by an editor, other editors and
administrators do their best to correct that edit when notified.
The information on Ghana's article about corruption has been sourced
unfortunately. Unless the credibility of the source is challenged or an
update about “economic corruption and economic crime” in Ghana appears, it
will remain. However the language was somewhat generalised and one sided.
As Ghanaian Wikipedians, we have looked into the matter and the rules that
apply.
Currently, Wikipedia has put the article under some protection from
unconfirmed users.
We would like to point out again that as WIkipedia is a wiki "permanent
arrangements" cannot be made to keep information static. But Planning
Wikimedia Ghana will organise an editing session to clean up the article
and also choose a member of our community to monitor the article for a
untruthful and biased information.
The government can move to support this effort.
Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia that is used and created by global
contributors. Ghanaians can help better the quality of information on Ghana
there and that is one of the objectives of Planning Wikimedia Ghana has.
Find out more about PWMG
here<http://planningwikimediaghana.blogspot.com/p/about-us.html>
Follow our recent publications on our
blog<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Planning_Wikimedia_Ghana>and about
us<http://www.oralofori.com/2014/01/q-with-founding-member-of-organizati…
.
Regards,
Sandister Tei
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Cardiff University
JOMEC -- International Journalism
www.sandistertei.com | +447448223686