On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:17 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 February 2011 23:24, aude
<aude.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Heather Ford, a former Wikimedia advisory board
member and
researcher/writer
in South Africa has written an essay, "The
Missing Wikipedians" about
systematic bias on English Wikipedia (especially) against new users and
topics pertinent to Africa and other diverse places/people.
As an example, she cites the English Wikipedia article [[Makmende]] and
the
deletion request made, biting the newbie.
http://hblog.org/2011/02/16/the-missing-wikipedians/
Please read and discuss.
Author appears to be living in 2006 (deletionists vs inclusionists)
and apparently this represents a clash between the two groups:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Makmende
Where in practice it's a pretty standard if rather one sided AFD.
That was after the article was speedy deleted three times and the fourth
time. They finally recreate the article with the edit summary "Introduction
of this superhero character -- this is not vandalism"
Then, Ethan Zuckerman blogged about this and chimed in on the article's talk
page, surely drawing attention and support in the AFD.
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2010/03/24/makmendes-so-huge-he-cant-fit…
What might we
do to help make Wikipedia a more
welcoming place for newbies
Since they seem to be determined to read the listing on AFD process as
deletion not much we can do. Some changes to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Article_for_deletion/dated
perhaps but keeping it within the current length could be tricky.
and for such diverse topics?
Drop a prompt to add sources into the article creation process and
make adding sources easy.
Before speedy deleting, how about tagging the article for needing sources,
leave the author a note on their talk page, and not be so quick to delete?
Cheers,
Katie
--
geni
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