I'd also be interested in contributing-- the BLP experience of last week was incredibly enlightening, and got me thinking about access... having the right key unlocked a wealth of knowledge and aid. How to make that key more widely available, or second nature/common knowledge? I'm hoping to blog about it soon. In any case, I'd like to come at some of the HOW-TO issues in general from that noob perspective.
cheers dz On May 16, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Pete Forsyth wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Sarah Stierch <sa...@sarahstierch.com> > wrote: > On 5/16/2011 11:49 AM, Pete Forsyth wrote: >> Anybody interested in tackling this issue? >> -Pete > I'm working on diving into the HOW-TO this summer for Wiki. I do want to see > all of these topics covered - and I'll contribute in anyway I can. Where do > we start? ;-) > > Hi Sarah, > > I'd be really happy to work on this with you! (And anyone else). > > My sense is that there's a lot of work to do in identifying the problem -- or > rather, evaluating the collection of interrelated issues, and determining > where it's best to focus. The things that seem significant to me are: > > (1) Picture of the Day on Commons often seems to be the source of unnecessary > strife (moreso than, say, PotD on English Wikipedia); > (2) It appears that there is not a clearly identified set of editorial values > around what DOES constitute a worthwhile PotD on Commons; > (3) The technical and social processes for setting a PotD are difficult to > understand and poorly documented. > > How about if we collaborate a bit on documenting how things currently work? I > think that process will point the way toward recommending a solution. > > I've set up a page for this project, if you're game! > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Peteforsyth/PotD > > -Pete > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
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