Re: [Wikimedia-l] A Stealth PR Campaign on Behalf of Gibraltar Provokes Existential Crisis for Wikipedia

Dear Rexx

The "Future Tense" Slate.com blog piece is a published researched
article, with directly relevant inline cites, a named author and a
collaboration between 3 credible organizations. The facts in that
article, ie. the sheer number of DYKs in a short span from a tiny
handkerchief bit of land are undenied. The article still stands with 2
minor corrections as a RELIABLE SOURCE in the face of your ORIGINAL
RESEARCH.

This kind of event based editing is what had also been highlighted in
the case of WMF's disastrous "Wikipedia India Education Program" in
2011 and 2013.

https://avamindia.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/wikipedia-india-education-program/
To which a follow up was sent
https://avamindia.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/wikipedia-child-pornography-scandal-india-education-program-2013/

Is it not shocking that WMF retains and hosts high resolution photos
of clearly identifiable minors taken inside their school under a
Creative Commons licence which permits derivations and commercial use
?

It is also very well known that these edit-a-thons are used by PAID
editors like "Fae" to write
articles on non-notables like "Veena Kumari" now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veena_Kumari
trimmed from this
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veena_Kumari&oldid=604720490
But guess who gets blocked just so Fae, or some other paid editor can
reinsert it when nobody is looking ?

Toby

On 1/11/15, rexx <rexx@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Here's another correction for you:
>
> Anybody who bothered to ask - rather than spilling bile-filled speculation
> about - would have soon found out that Roger Bamkin was working in
> Gibraltar to encourage new editors to edit Wikipedia. Roger's expertise is
> in education, not PR, and he is a qualified teacher.
>
> And what would a group of new editors living in Gibraltar write about as
> they learn how to edit? The place where they live, perhaps?
>
> Roger knows very well how much encouragement new editors get from having
> their efforts featured at DYK - it's the main purpose of DYK, of course. So
> why would it be surprising that so many new DYKs appeared from a new batch
> of editors who all lived in Gibraltar - which with its history was an
> obvious rich source of articles that nobody had bothered to tap before?
>
> If you don't believe me, do the research yourself: look at those DYKs - who
> wrote the articles? and how long had they been editing? They were trained
> together and wrote new articles that were good enough to be featured as
> DYKs. We should be celebrating that, not spinning it into yet another
> attack on Wikipedia from the haters.
>
> --
> Rexx
>
>
>
> On 11 January 2015 at 06:33, Toby Dollmann <toby.dollmann@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/09/20/roger_bamkin_gibraltor_s_repeated_appearance_on_did_you_know_provkes_existential_crisis_for_wikipedia_.html
>>
>> A Stealth PR Campaign on Behalf of Gibraltar Provokes Existential
>> Crisis for Wikipedia
>> By Mark Joseph Stern
>> Mark Joseph Stern is a writer for Slate. He covers science, the law,
>> and LGBTQ issues.
>>
>> How much do you know about Gibraltar?
>>
>> If you've been reading been reading Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" page
>> recently, you probably know a great deal about the tiny British
>> territory at the mouth of the Mediterranean. In fact, in the month of
>> August alone, Gibraltar was featured on "Did You Know?" a jaw-dropping
>> 17 times, according to the technology website CNET. (One example: "Did
>> you know that in Gibraltar, a mole's elbow is a site of control for
>> the harbour?") That, for the record, is more times than any subject
>> other than the Olympics—a tidal wave of information for a country with
>> only 2.6 square miles of land mass.

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