[Gendergap] Wikipedia: Biography of Living People guide (focusing on sport)

[Philippe Beaudette]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Laura Hale <laura at fanhistory.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Philippe Beaudette <
> philippe at wikimedia.org> wrote:
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>> That's a great start!
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>> One thing I'd do... our "acronym soup" can be enormously confusing.  I
>> have a tendency to write " enwp.org/WP:BLP ", for instance, but an
>> outsider might need to see
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Biographies_of_Living_Persons -
>> it's easier for the mind to parse.
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> I shortened the URLs mostly because this was intended as a print resource.
> The fewer the letters, the less likely people are to get frustrated with
> typing. :)
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Right, I understand but disagree.  :-)  I think it's easier for the mind to
parse full words that are long rather than short series of random (to them)
letters. :)

pb
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