[Wikimedia-l] speedydeletion.wika.com lauched

[John Vandenberg]

I think we need to ensure that BLP deletions are tagged appropriately.

and this wikia needs to err on the side of caution in order to avoid
causing subjects further grief in their pursuit to remove problematic
content from Wikipedia.  i.e. if someone jumps through all the hoops
to *help* us remove problematic content from Wikipedia, they are not
going to be happy to learn that the same content has appeared on Wikia
- its confusing, and they will blame Wikipedia, and IMO they are right
to do so as this Wikia is run by people in the Wikimedia community,
and due to the overlap in the WMF board and Wikia board, now and
historically.

e.g. this AFD mentioned "WP:BLP1E" and was categorised into "AfD
debates (Biographical)"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Alexander_Kinyua
http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Alexander_Kinyua

Until we are confident that BLP problems are not being imported into
the wikia, the content shouldnt be indexed.  I assume  __NOINDEX__
works on Wikia?

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkbrad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Although I can understand the appeal of this concept, I am concerned
> that a deleted-articles wiki or site will perpetuate the publicity
> given to pages that are properly deleted from Wikipedia because they
> contain offensive personal attacks, harassment, cyberbullying,
> defamation, and BLP violations. These are not always flagged in the
> deletion grounds, especially in speedy situations (e.g. if a harassing
> or defamatory article does not assert the subject's notability, it
> will often be deleted on that ground without its being tagged as an
> attack page, etc.). This issue strikes me as extremely serious. How do
> you plan to address it?
>
> Newyorkbrad
>
> On 6/10/12, Mike  Dupont <jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I have launched speedydeletion.wika.com , it is updated every 30 minutes
>> with the proposed deletions and speedy deletion articles (not notable and
>> hoaxes, not others).
>> it is running on the en.wikipedia.org. the sources for the script are all
>> on git hub and are a merger of pywikipediabot and the wikiteam codebases.
>> hope you enjoy it,
>> thanks,
>> mike
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