One Way to help:
One good way that groups (and individuals) in the third world (and anywhere else) can help wikipedia retain and add to the articles on their work is to state explicitly on their web sites that the pages are licensed GFDL (or just public domain). At least the text, and if possible the images. Very often this is the main source for an article, and article are often deleted for contain too much copied text. Many pages and especially images in Europe and elsewhere are licensed for nonprofit use only, and this does not meet the requirements of en WP.
There is of course the mechanism to request permission, but it is usual for organizations and webmasters not to react fast enough.
Many of the eds. at WP can & will quickly take such information and adapt and reduce it to a good article--it takes much longer to rewrite from scratch. I personally try to rewrite one such article a week, but if I could use blocks of web text and photos when appropriate I could do two or three.
On 4/25/07, Frederick Noronha fred@bytesforall.org wrote:
Dear all,
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The speedy deletions of pages of organisations whose work is widely noticed and is certainly relevant to the Third World (or the so-called "developing world") is unfair.
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Special care needs to be taken about groups working in non-English languages and those on the so-called "periphery" (i.e. not in the "big cities that matter" or the bigger nations that have so many of their denizens active in cyberspace). Many such groups might not be visible enough in cyberspace, but that hardly means their work is not relevant!
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Frederick "FN" Noronha Goa, India.
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. DGG