Are " foreigners " deleting Wikipedia's India content?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedia...
I think we need to also focus in our outreach programmes to tell people why would a content be deleted or altered on Wikipedia
Thoughts?
Regards Tinu Cherian
Very true Tinu, Most people just dont get policies right. I am sure its a standard practice by experienced users now to use a {{Welcome}} template, but very few users actually go through them. I think a better, fun, interactive way [read quiz/survey] of reaching out the wikipolicies will help. Probably this can be a criteria to make the user autoconfirmed. That way we could have fewer users leaving after their first page being deleted. Just a thought.
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 20:05, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
Are " foreigners " deleting Wikipedia's India content?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedia...
I think we need to also focus in our outreach programmes to tell people why would a content be deleted or altered on Wikipedia
Thoughts?
Regards Tinu Cherian
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the conflict in the article is a very intresting thing to note.. -- Regards, rsrikanth05
On 21 October 2010 21:57, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
Very true Tinu, Most people just dont get policies right. I am sure its a standard practice by experienced users now to use a {{Welcome}} template, but very few users actually go through them. I think a better, fun, interactive way [read quiz/survey] of reaching out the wikipolicies will help. Probably this can be a criteria to make the user autoconfirmed. That way we could have fewer users leaving after their first page being deleted. Just a thought.
Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 20:05, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
Are " foreigners " deleting Wikipedia's India content?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedia...
I think we need to also focus in our outreach programmes to tell people why would a content be deleted or altered on Wikipedia
Thoughts?
Regards Tinu Cherian
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I tried posting a comment but it wouldn't let me. Still, probably it was spam or nonsense, but even then, the response rates to vandalism or spam or flagrant soapboxing is much slower on Indian articles on en, so he should be thankful
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Srikanth Ramakrishnan < rsrikanth05@gmail.com> wrote:
the conflict in the article is a very intresting thing to note.. -- Regards, rsrikanth05
On 21 October 2010 21:57, Srikanth Lakshmanan srik.lak@gmail.com wrote:
Very true Tinu, Most people just dont get policies right. I am sure its a standard practice by experienced users now to use a {{Welcome}} template, but very few users actually go through them. I think a better, fun, interactive way [read quiz/survey] of reaching out the wikipolicies will help. Probably this can be a criteria to make the user autoconfirmed. That way we could have fewer users leaving after their first page being deleted. Just a thought.
Regards Srikanth.L Google Profile http://j.mp/SrikanthL
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 20:05, CherianTinu Abraham < tinucherian@gmail.com> wrote:
Are " foreigners " deleting Wikipedia's India content?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedia...
I think we need to also focus in our outreach programmes to tell people why would a content be deleted or altered on Wikipedia
Thoughts?
Regards Tinu Cherian
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-- Regards, ME. Wear a Lungi, Support the Movement My infrastructure invasion... plus other images too.. on Wikimedia Commons. http://bit.ly/d50SIq
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Actually we should note the following:
- The article is sensationally titled. - It quotes an active wikipedian to make that assertion..
So the question IMHO are: - Is that a perception some wikipedians carry. - If so why? What could we do to change that impression? - Or were they misquoted?
regards Arun
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 8:05 PM, CherianTinu Abraham tinucherian@gmail.comwrote:
Are " foreigners " deleting Wikipedia's India content?
http://www.ciol.com/News/News/News-Reports/Are-foreigners-deleting-Wikipedia...
I think we need to also focus in our outreach programmes to tell people why would a content be deleted or altered on Wikipedia
Thoughts?
Regards Tinu Cherian
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