I had a great time! Got three people to actually edit a page for the first time. One lady standing a few feet back from the tables kvetched to her husband that Wikipedia's coverage of CEREC (a new dental technology) was poor. So I immediately yanked her over to an iMac and got her to fix the page! After she tentatively added a few facts, she got on a roll and started making the page into CEREC advocacy. That provided a great chance to explain NPOV. Then she and her husband took out the sales-pitch prose and took pride in getting the facts just right. Hooray, another convert!
Ben
On May 5, 2008, at 8:47 AM, Brion Vibber wrote:
I just want to toss out a quick thank you to everybody who came out to help man the Wikimedia booth at Maker Faire over the weekend.
Turnout was much greater than we expected, and everybody seemed to have a great time!
(But really, who wouldn't enjoy themselves someplace with that many robots?)
Pix on Commons for those who missed the fun: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Maker_Faire
-- brion vibber (brion @ wikimedia.org)
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