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

What are you still doing in my email?

On 11/01/2015 16:37, Toby Dollmann wrote:
> 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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