[Foundation-l] Wikimedia NL

[Brian McNeil]

This morning I went through the entire edit history of the article and made
sure every contributor had a welcome template. So sue me for grand spamming
:)


Brian.

-----Original Message-----
From: foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:foundation-l-bounces at lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Florence
Devouard
Sent: 29 October 2007 14:44
To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Wikimedia NL

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:
>>
>>  
>>
>> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Netherlands%2C_2007_conference
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Any feedback on what I've written so far would also be appreciated.
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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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