Hello,
Being an election year here in Kenya I took it upon me to watch some politicians pages especially for those who have declared that they would be running for the top seat (presidency).
I have noted that some guys have been vandalizing some of the pages with propaganda and malicious wording. These vandals have been doing this anonymously and the only trails they leave is the IP addresses.
For instance, how does one put in Kalonzo Musyoka's article that the link to his homepage is musaliamudavadi.com?See [1] below.
Wikipedia should be neutral as it always has been. Orange Kenya just launched Wikipedia Zero and the citizenry will definitely want to look for local content on Wikipedia, and top among them will be the presidential hopefuls due the political heat in the country. If they come across such a silly and malicious mistake then the reputation of Wikipedia will definitely be tarnished or it would lose respect.
To that end, we need to lay down measures to prevent this from happening now and in the future. The Wikimedia Foundation is trying to penetrate the global south and gaining trust is key to this success.
regards, Stephen.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kalonzo_Musyoka&diff=next&oldid=491169504
Well observed, Stephen; especially in election years there is a lot of tampering, obvious or non-obvious, to articles about politicians and parties. Hopefully the problem in the Swahili Wikipedia is not very big, but the English Wikipedia is bigger and more difficult to keep an overview over.
I would suggest that you reach out to the NPOV noticeboardhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view/Noticeboard, the Counter-Vandalism Unithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Vandalismand perhaps WikiProject Politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Politics to make people aware that it is an election year in Kenya, and that they should help you keep a watch on related articles.
2012/5/26 Stephen Wanjau stevewanjau@wikimedia.or.ke
Hello,
Being an election year here in Kenya I took it upon me to watch some politicians pages especially for those who have declared that they would be running for the top seat (presidency).
I have noted that some guys have been vandalizing some of the pages with propaganda and malicious wording. These vandals have been doing this anonymously and the only trails they leave is the IP addresses.
For instance, how does one put in Kalonzo Musyoka's article that the link to his homepage is musaliamudavadi.com?See [1] below.
Wikipedia should be neutral as it always has been. Orange Kenya just launched Wikipedia Zero and the citizenry will definitely want to look for local content on Wikipedia, and top among them will be the presidential hopefuls due the political heat in the country. If they come across such a silly and malicious mistake then the reputation of Wikipedia will definitely be tarnished or it would lose respect.
To that end, we need to lay down measures to prevent this from happening now and in the future. The Wikimedia Foundation is trying to penetrate the global south and gaining trust is key to this success.
regards, Stephen.
en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kalonzo_Musyoka&diff=next&oldid=491169504
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