i totally agree with the organising - at the end of the day, keeping something on wikipedia is really about how many numbers you can muster who are prepared to vouch for something.
& thanks tim for volunteering to help. here are a few to start with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furtherfield - has been deleted, reposted, & survived a second (or third?) deletion attempt; currently flagged as an orphan. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberformance - survived a deletion attempt in september last year, but for some reason is now tagged as reading like an advertisement, which is bizarre. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_art - i forget the history of this page, but it's struggling - currently has 3 flags on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UpStage - currently flagged as an orphan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Life - needs citations & those are just the ones that i've been trying to keep an eye on - i'm sure there are loads more ... h : ) Tim Cowlishaw wrote: > On 5 May 2009, at 09:33, Rob Myers wrote: > > >> I think that the solution to this is for those of us who understand >> new media art (etc.) to *organise* on Wikipedia and to help prepare >> articles about new media art (etc.) to survive deletion reviews. >> > > +1 to this - and I'd be happy to help. In general, i think there needs > to be a concerted push of knowledgeable people to improve art-related > articles in general, There seems to be a lot of good information on > art-related subjects on there but many editors don't seem to have the > critical ability to formulate them into useful articles. > > Cheers, > > Tim > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > -- ____________________________________________________________ helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst he...@creative-catalyst.com http://www.creative-catalyst.com http://www.avatarbodycollision.org http://www.upstage.org.nz http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
