On 29/01/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
What can we really do to contact the nebulous
"community", though?
David and I and others have been bitching and moaning about this at
the slightest provocation for six months, but the project is big and
you can only chat to so many people. Short of putting out quarterly
Signpost announcements saying "The following seven areas of coverage
are the ones that piss our readers off the most. Please make them less
crap, we'd all live happier lives", I'm not sure we can easily do much
about it.
A weekly OTRS report in the Signpost would be a really good idea,
actually, and would probably help a lot.
A common but less worrying issue is a simple lack of
context and scale
- many of these articles are seized by one enterprising student or
another to write about the school as they see it; these usually aren't
*so* bad, but they tend to have a very blurred line as to what is and
isn't appropriate material, which then leads into articles that the
school is understandably annoyed by the existence of simply because,
well, they're linked with this amateurish, hit-and-miss, erratically
accurate and conceptually blinkered article. (These are often the
hardest to deal with, in many ways)
The main problem with our school articles is that they're largely
crap, and therefore "non-notable" has been used as the excuse to
delete them.
- d.