No worries Keegan I read it as sarcastic, given the amount of noise on here
I chose my tone intentionally to draw attention to the competition, yes it
looks like a wonderful idea until to look at the mechanics of comeptition
given it has a start time in 2 weeks, people are being encourage to start
now in sandboxes, its being advertised on banners yet it has very obvious
under lying issues
- unrealistic targets
- quantity not quality
- an expectation that competitors are required to do half of what is
expected from new editors , we should hold ourselves and expect of higher
standards than that we expect from new comers
- no methodology for notability. blp, copyright issues arent weeded out
during the event or judging
- judging is done by a bot just doing a count
To win this event all you need is a list, a script, and reliable internet
connection, despite having so many signed up well experience good editors
on the list. <sarcasm> Sadly one person using a Wikidata script to create
articles could be the winner, just imagine the unimaginable
frankenstienian horror that would create </sarcasm>
Any competition that relies on numbers alone is fraught with danger, the
big international events all succeed not because of numbers but because of
large teams(this run by one person alone) focused on quality with the whole
processes divided into manageable opt-in regional sections. All the
initiatives to focus on under represented topics need to be careful few
thousands of poor quality stubs about women is more harmful than having
nothing as people will perceive Wikipedia to be paying lip service to women.
On 16 October 2017 at 07:18, Keegan Peterzell <keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Gergő Tisza
<gtisza(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Keegan
Peterzell <
keegan.wiki(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> "The nerve of these women, to think that they can write encyclopedia
> articles on women who must inherently be non-notable! There's nothing
to
> write about here."
>
> That's basically what your email says. No complaints when the subject
is
anything
else from you, when these thematic editing are held on other
subjects.
Please avoid personal attacks based on hidden motivations you assume
other
parties to have; it's contrary to the
Wikimedia movement's social best
practices [1] and bound to take discussions in unproductive directions.
When criticizing what someone said, stick to what they actually said.
Especially so if your accusation of bad faith would be essentially
content-free.
Todd, Gnangarra, Gergő,
My intention, as I touched on earlier, was not to make a personal attack
but to address the tone in which I perceived the email to be written. I
don't believe Gnangarra is actually sexist. I certainly stand by my
position that the content of the initial post is unhelpful criticism and
mostly hyperbole, but I'm more than willing to apologize if my language
came across as a personal attack. I could have written it differently. So,
sorry about that.
--
~Keegan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan
This is my personal email address. Everything sent from this email address
is in a personal capacity.
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