tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439561539898172827.post2366894507520591846..comments2023-10-03T06:56:38.719-07:00Comments on Crashing Into Open Source (without a paddle): OccupediA - Women Contributing to Wikipedia (the first of many such events)Lukas Blakkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10704122818790306443noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439561539898172827.post-44743800879592002912012-01-24T01:48:31.001-08:002012-01-24T01:48:31.001-08:00Hey! I'm so glad you did this, and bummed I co...Hey! I'm so glad you did this, and bummed I couldn't make it! Still wearing an ankle brace. <br />Here's my experience of my first time contributing to Wikipedia: I wrote my first article in December. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdena_Parker ... My friend Ramon is a linguist and works a lot with her. When I was writing it, I stared at the Notability link a lot. Another a cappella group on campus, Noteworthy, had some fights with wikipedia editors because they were deemed not noteworthy enough, which is hilarious. I remember hearing a lot about the discussion in like 2006 -- one of the notability requirements for a music group was that they tour internationally, and Noteworthy had technically done that since they'd gone to Asia. But they were still denied. There's a different a cappella group named Noteworthy on wikipedia now. Anyway....<br /><br />I used the AfC/Wizard first, then realized that it was going into a pipeline and had no idea how long it would take until someone looked at it, so I deleted it and created the page for real. After that, I looked on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_copy_edit for a while and reformatted other peoples' new pages. I remember I spent a lot of time on this new-edit page on a Chinese entrepreneur that was obviously copy-and-pasted from their "about" page, and thinking that they probably did not pass Notability. Then I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_articles_needing_copy_edit and spent a lot of time reading about "barn stars" and looking at the massive list of articles that needed copyediting. I spent a lot of time installing the bit of code that makes a word count show up on wikipedia pages when you're logged in, and then a lot of time trying to edit a random article I picked on the big list ... it was on antibiotic misuse. It needed a lot of changes, since the tone was definitely not neutral, and had several paragraphs that were repeated paraphrases of each other. I keep wanting to come back and find small obvious errors to correct (since I don't want to do anything wrong).judytunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06134176119421961206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439561539898172827.post-56331867909674107102012-01-12T11:58:18.506-08:002012-01-12T11:58:18.506-08:00Hey all - I'm Maryana. I work for the Wikimedi...Hey all - I'm Maryana. I work for the Wikimedia Foundation at their SF office, and I'm a volunteer editor in my spare time. Oh yeah, and I'm also a woman :)<br /><br />First up, awesome idea and thanks for organizing. <br /><br />Second, I think I might be able to help with improving this experience the second time around (please tell me when there'll be a second time around!). Need a way to give people smaller, more manageable tasks than creating an article from scratch? Check out WP:Backlog. Need a place to paste draft articles and get peer review before going live? Well, there's this thing called AfC... <br /><br />Anyway, I'd be happy to get together with y'all and brainstorm pre the next session, dump a few ideas into your Etherpad, or just show up to the next event and be a Wikipedia cheerleader (and hand out swag - I have buttons!). You can reach me at mpinchuk [at] wikimedia [dot] org. Give me a holler :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439561539898172827.post-1212878489881506292012-01-11T15:17:47.100-08:002012-01-11T15:17:47.100-08:00Hey Sarah - we didn't get to do very much orig...Hey Sarah - we didn't get to do very much original input to articles as the learning to navigate Wikipedia and discussing how it works as a culture took up so much time. All our notes are here though: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/OccupyWikipediaLukas Blakkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10704122818790306443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6439561539898172827.post-33881124818086715552012-01-11T10:39:18.456-08:002012-01-11T10:39:18.456-08:00Thanks for sharing your experience Lukas. Any plac...Thanks for sharing your experience Lukas. Any place on Wiki that features the content created and user accounts created? Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com