[Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

Noein pronoein at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 21:48:13 UTC 2010


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On 19/06/2010 19:53, Keegan Peterzell wrote:
> My jaw just dropped.  While I know these are ideas intended to help increase
> the socialization, this is turning Wikipedia into youtube.  The day that
> happens I'm resigning all my permissions and packing my bags.  Softening
> notability?  Fantasy articles?  Games?  Live comments?  No thanks.
> 
> I don't think the idea of encouraging women to participate needs these
> things.  I have a fierce dislike for what I consider to be the mind-numbing
> distraction that social networking sites provide.  I'd rather use Wikimedia
> projects to stimulate my mind, not kill time.

Then I made my point. I think futilizing wikipedia is the worst thing we
can do.

On 19/06/2010 07:30, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> ???? Saturday 19 June 2010 05:58:31 Milos Rancic ??????:
>> That means that we need games for women. While I think that we should
>> build full social network, just a basic one would help.
>
> Or perhaps we don't even have to build one, but just use the existing
ones.
> [People are always against making Wikipedia a social network.] Have
RSS feeds
> of articles you created/pictures you uploaded. These could then be
connected
> to Facebook or wherever for your friends to see what are you working on.
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