On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Marc Riddell
michaeldavi...@comcast.netwrote:
What's wrong with drama, Steven? If the issue is creating a dramatic
situation for people, how would you have them express it, neutrally?
Since
passion is the temperature of emotion, shouldn't we get a measure
Hello. I'd like to share with you what is -in my opinion- a serious
problem with one of the most important articles in Wikipedia.
I'm referring to the article about love. I think that keeping neutrallity
in this article is fundamental, since many people from all over the
world reads it, and also
Perhaps there are already adequate guidelines as well as resources
regarding
on line conflict and resolution, but one resource might be the Public
Conversations Project in Cambridge which has all sorts of resources for
better communications - they managed a six month online conversation with
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:32 PM, carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
One thing we can all do is send letters of encouragement to women to
join wikipedia. I don't know if there is a form letter already used
that we can merge ideas like the below into. This is includes and
expands on points I
Whoops. I just re-read Carol's message -- I had misunderstood at first. If
this is an effort to recruit *brand new* contributors (as opposed to
retaining those who have dabbled), the research I cited above doesn't really
apply :)
But, I do think the findings of the Wikipedia Public Policy
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Pete Forsyth
pete.public.em...@gmail.comwrote:
But in general, it ties in with what Sue brought up: people brand new to
Wikipedia often need a *lot* of support and advice before they start to get
their legs. So directing them to educational resources, and
From: Pete Forsyth pete.public.em...@gmail.com
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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Whoops. I just re-read Carol's message
On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Birgitte SB wrote:
People need to be sent to work on their passions with their personal
strengths, not just told in a blanket fashion to write some articles.
Birgitte SB
This all sounds like a pretty sound approach to me. I like it.
Another worthwhile thing,
I would suggest we not create not a noticeboard for this issue specifically.
How about putting it in the form of a Systemic Bias Noticeboard? That way it
could accomodate other such issues we may uncover, or already have (i.e., U.S-
and U.K.-centrism, general English-speaking
From: Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com
To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects
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Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 10:47:23 PM
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On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Birgitte SB
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