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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