Nah, the contest is about motivating people to write about a topic area that is not there normal bailiwick.
That is fine thing to do because the unintended consequences of being written on a wiki, English Wikipedia initially attracted people who were less interested in writing about women than the general population in English speaking world. So, we are still playing catch up to get the low hanging fruit from Women's Halls of Fame and other books that specialize in collecting biographies of notable people and their works.
I'm thrilled to see this contest promote writing about notable women from around the world so the goal of 20% is reached faster.
Sydney User:FloNight
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Co-founder Kentucky Wikimedians, Co-founder WikiWomen User Group, Co-founder WikiConference North America Board member of Wiki Project Med Foundation
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
If I misread that part, my apologies. That still doesn't change the core issue, that money is being offered, and that it's being offered for quantity rather than quality.
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 4:30 PM, Gergo Tisza gtisza@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com
wrote:
This project is going for 100k articles. There are as of this writing
118
editors signed up. That is, even if we presume 100% participation
(which
is
generally wildly optimistic), nearly 1000 articles per editor to reach
that
goal. If somehow that does happen, there are four judges who would need
to
review, if the goal is reached, 25000 articles each. Those are not realistic numbers.
Come on. Did you even read the page you are talking about? Clearly you
are
confusing it with the 100,000 Challange [1] which starts at the same time but is a much larger project (the project page mentions a two-year timeframe).
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