Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation.
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2009/3/6 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation.
This article has now been posted by three different people to three different mailing lists! The thread on wikien-l is the longest - I suggest people discuss it there.
Hoi, When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree. Thanks, GerardM
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com
2009/3/6 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
Politicians get quite annoyed at this stuff. In my experience they mostly take a certain level of rubbish in their stride, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't work to improve the situation.
This article has now been posted by three different people to three different mailing lists! The thread on wikien-l is the longest - I suggest people discuss it there.
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2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
Hoi, When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree.
It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article.
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree.
It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article.
Note that en:wp is more British than might be expected - according to a 2007 statistics run (by Greg Maxwell?), 50% of edits on en:wp are from the US and 25% are from the UK, even though the population ratio is 5:1. So UK residents edit 2.5x as much as US residents per capita. (I use this stat to correct UK journalists who think of Wikipedia as an American thing.)
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2009/3/6 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree.
It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article.
Note that en:wp is more British than might be expected - according to a 2007 statistics run (by Greg Maxwell?), 50% of edits on en:wp are from the US and 25% are from the UK, even though the population ratio is 5:1. So UK residents edit 2.5x as much as US residents per capita. (I use this stat to correct UK journalists who think of Wikipedia as an American thing.)
That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how important we are.
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/3/6 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
2009/3/6 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/3/6 Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com:
When the English Wikipedia is the only Wikipedia with BLP issues, I completely agree.
It's the only Wikipedia where BLP issues significantly affect UK politicians, which are the subject of the article.
Note that en:wp is more British than might be expected - according to a 2007 statistics run (by Greg Maxwell?), 50% of edits on en:wp are from the US and 25% are from the UK, even though the population ratio is 5:1. So UK residents edit 2.5x as much as US residents per capita. (I use this stat to correct UK journalists who think of Wikipedia as an American thing.)
That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how important we are.
For that matter, just look at the contributors to this list alone :-)
Cary
2009/3/6 Cary Bass cary@wikimedia.org:
That's interesting. We should try and get some more up-to-date stats on that - it would be useful for Wikimedia UK to have stats like that to throw around in negotiations, etc., to show how important we are.
For that matter, just look at the contributors to this list alone :-)
Yes, I've noticed a disproportionate number of Brits on this list, but I'm not sure foundation-l is representative of the community as a whole!
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