Hey Anthony,
Apologies for the delay on this.
To the best of our knowledge, this ad isn't being run by the Wikimedia
Foundation nor any vendor of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Regards
Seddon
On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 7:12 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
That Google ad (describing Wikipedia as the
fact-checked encyclopedia) is
still the top result when I search for “wikipedia” in Australia.
On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 at 8:57 pm, Isaac Olatunde <reachout2isaac(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Leigh, I disagree that all projects are hostile
to outsiders. When
someone
edit in a language they do not speak and use
machine to translate
contents
for example and refused to stop after multiple
warnings, a block in such
case may not be considered an "hostile" response. That being said, I
completely agree with Rob that fact-checked encyclopedia is more
appropriate considering the hostility in some language Wikipedia, notably
the English Wikipedia. How do you describe a Wikipedia where someone
create
their first article and got deleted and when the
page creator approached
the deleting admin on why their article got deleted and the response they
received is "Kindly have the decency to create a decent article ", "count
yourself lucky, I don't talk to IP address "?
Regards,
Isaac.
On Apr 15, 2018 3:21 PM, "Leigh Thelmadatter" <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:
Not just English Wikipedia. All of the projects
are hostile to
"outsiders"
Those not in English might even be worse for
several reasons
Enviado desde mi LG de Telcel
------ Original message------
From: Robert Fernandez
Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2018 9:17 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List;
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Subject:Re: [Wikimedia-l] The fact-checked encyclopedia
Considering the barriers to entry, growing thicket of policies,
organized group harassment, and open hostility on the English
Wikipedia, I'm not sure we can even call it "the encyclopedia anyone
can edit" anymore. So I'd say fact-checked is a more accurate and
relevant claim these days.
On Sun, Apr 15, 2018 at 8:53 AM, Anthony Cole <ahcoleecu(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> > I just googled “wikipedia” and the first result was a Google ad
linking
> to
> > wikipedia.org.[1] It calls Wikipedia the fact-checked encyclopedia.
We
used
> to call it the encyclopedia anyone can edit. The latter seems more
honest
> than this new formulation which to me
implies a degree of reliability
and
> > oversight I'm not sure we can ethically assert. I missed the
discussion
> > about this new self-description. Did it
happen on meta? Is anyone
else
> > uncomfortabe with this?
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