[Foundation-l] Wikimedia NL
Florence Devouard
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 29 13:44:28 UTC 2007
Florence Devouard wrote:
> Brian McNeil wrote:
>> Get your press cards out now, it is time to report on the Wikimedia
>> Netherlands conference.
>>
>>
>>
>> The Wikinews article I have started on the topic can be found at the
>> following url:
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>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Netherlands%2C_2007_conference
>>
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>>
>> Board and ex-board people can contribute (please do!) I'm looking for the
>> people who attended the talks I didn't to flesh the article out.
>>
>>
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>> Any feedback on what I've written so far would also be appreciated.
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>> Brian.
>
> Well, here is my feedback
>
> After the conference, on irc, you asked me to not hesitate to improve
> the article which existed at that time.
> So, I went to the article, and fixed various sentences. I also added the
> link to the place where the video could be downloaded.
>
> My fixes were not huge, but I believe they represented better what
> happened this day. I believe they were helpful and improving the article.
>
> However, I made a "mistake" (apparently).
>
> MY EDITS WERE ANONYMOUS !!!
>
> So, they were reverted; The fact they were improving the article
> apparently was a detail. The fact they were anonymous was not a detail.
> It was considered vandalism since reverted with no explanation on the
> talk page and no attempt to discuss with the anon ip and not even a
> comment in the comment box.
>
> Saying that I am disappointed by this would be an understatement. My
> small improvement to your (otherwise appreciated) article is for me a
> statement of failure.
>
> Ant
Oh, and ... I'll add.
My anon talk page received a welcome template.
Maybe I am wrong, but, if I had been a real newbie, I would find very
odd to be welcomed by the local team, but be entirely reverted with not
even a beginning of explanation. I would definitly wonder if I am really
welcome and what I did wrong to be reverted.
Ant
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