I was once warned for canvassing, because I told people offsite how to vote in a discussion about to keep certain page. These people were mostly of a female audience and interested in women's history, and the group who were wanting to delete were mostly anglo men.
Also, Peter, when a person is offended by something someone else has said and you don't understand it---it's probably best not to comment on it. I actually *have* read it very closely due to that situation. But thanks for assuming that I am not capable of doing so. --Maggie > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 10:02:22 -0700 > From: Pete Forsyth <petefors...@gmail.com> > Subject: [Gendergap] Canvassing > To: Increasing female participation in Wikimedia projects > <gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org> > Message-ID: <cefd590f-2c51-468e-9274-2dcc9c7ca...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Oct 1, 2011, at 6:55 AM, Maggie wrote: > > > Wikipedia is set up so that only people who look for these > articles/pictures will know about voting procedures. So of course if there > is a vote, the majority would probably be overall positive unless serious > canvassing went on to let people who care about the other side know about it > so it evens out. Canvassing is set up to prevent this--I believe it's > actually a way of biasing the community to serve only the community, and not > the readers. Because the readers are--the world. Telling people about the > topic is just like how any election goes. I guess unless you are in some > sort of fake election where people are led to believe that their votes > actually count. > > Maggie, I can relate to the frustration you're expressing. But I'd like to > draw a distinction between the Canvassing guideline itself (which I consider > a helpful and insightful document, that illuminates important collaborative > practices) and the way accusations of Canvassing may be made in certain > contexts. > > The Canvassing guideline is an important part of our world. If you haven't > read it recently, I highly recommend it: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:CANVASS > > It is often quoted by people who, I think, *haven't* read it closely, and > used to criticize behavior that is actually constructive. That is a problem, > but it's not a problem with the guideline itself. > > -Pete >
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