[Foundation-l] Request for your input: biographies of living people

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Mar 2 20:13:13 UTC 2009


2009/3/2 Para <wikipara at gmail.com>:

> The Dutch Wikipedia uses an extension to contact "Wikipedia"
> anonymously directly from the browser. See
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15624 and
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ContactPage.
> IRC tells me that the response group is happy with the message flow so
> far, and people using the form seem happy to use it as well, even
> though it's also three clicks away from any article.


Sounds good. The current "Contact Wikipedia" page on en:wp is a sort
of webpage "wizard" interface that steers you from page to page. I
suspect this is less than optimal.

I expect with a general "Report a problem with this article" page,
we'll get lots of editorial issues - "there's a spelling error" "you
deleted my band you suck" "your article shows your liberal bias" etc.
What's the proportion like? How do you deal with these?


- d.




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