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(a)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(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Todd Allen
<toddmallen(a)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).
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women_
in_Red/The_100,000_Challenge
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