WereSpielCheckers... point taken noting that the minimum figure has shifted
from 0.75k to 1k, let leave it at that
On 16 October 2017 at 17:30, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi Gnangarra
I've heard bad things about the articles for creation process, but a
minimum of either 1.5 kb or 2,000 bytes of prose is a new one on me. Can
you link to that part of the AFC rules? I have reread things such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/
Reviewing_instructions and found one perfectly sensible comment about
deleting single sentence "articles". But 1,000 bytes would be a jolly long
sentence. AFC has its flaws, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, but is
it really as flawed as you assert?
As for the women in red contest, you might want to read the rules, and if
you have concerns there is a currently redlinked talkpage.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_
talk:WikiProject_Women_in_Red/The_World_Contest/Rules&
action=edit&redlink=1
I've made a couple of bold tweaks to the competition rules myself, but they
did already cover notability and of course copyvio. Though a contest aimed
at existing editors is less likely to hit problems in those areas as an
outreach editathon targeted at new editors - there we do need to explain
our notability rules and sadly often teach people about copyright and
plagiarism.
As for criticising a project for aiming for 100,000 articles when they only
have 4 judges and 108 participants, it is two weeks until it starts and
they have a watchlist notice up to recruit more people either as
participants or judges note
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_
in_Red/The_World_Contest/Rules
-* "If you want to help judge the contest or help out with running it
please ensure that you add your name in the judges section on the main
page"* I could understand at the end of a project having that sort of
criticism if they had got ambitious but not tried to recruit enough
participants. However at this stage such criticism is premature and
probably misdirected. A more nuanced view would be to look at the end and
check whether they succeeded in their objective and whether they achieved
sufficient participation both of editors and judges. Criticising a project
that doesn't start for another two weeks for having insufficient judges and
participants when it currently in a major site wide recruitment drive for
judges and participants seems premature to me.
Alternatively one could look at the objective and ask whether creating
100,000 articles on women was sufficient, insufficient or excessive to deal
with the known gender gap in our coverage. The 100,000 target looks about
right to me and it will be interesting to see how much progress people can
make on it in a one month contest, but if someone is uncomfortable about it
it would be sensible to go through the figures and check if that is an
appropriate target for the problem. Treating such an ambitious target as a
problem without acknowledging that Wikipedia has coverage gaps on that
scale comes across almost as denial of the problem.
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:02:50 +0800
From: Gnangarra <gnangarra(a)gmail.com>
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Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red
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I cant believe this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_in
_Red/The_World_Contest
has
got WMF funding, the idea of trying to create 100,000 stub articles on
english wikipedia without any thought to how it'll impact on the
community.
I find it ironic that a competition is being funded to encourage current
contributors to do what we wont accept from new editors. If a new editor
was to create an article it wouldnt pass through the Articles for
Creation
process because its half the size of the minimum
set there. Many of the
competition articles will just get tagged CSD - A1, A7, A9 even G2
While there is a nice bot that will count the size of the prose, there is
no automated process for checking copyright violations, checking for
notability and most importantly checking for BLP with the aim of 100,000
the community will years to clean up the mess that is about to be
created.
​we are 15 days from this disaster commencing​
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G
nangarra
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Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 08:47:30 -0600
From: James Heilman <jmh649(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Women in red
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Correction:
There is a tool that automatically checks for copyright infringement.
It is called CopyPatrol
https://tools.wmflabs.org/copypatrol/en
James
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