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Honestly, I thing a dozen Nim users should band together and register at Wikipedia to turn the vote the next time someone tries to delete the article. If the de
by captainmuon 12y ago
Honestly, I thing a dozen Nim users should band together and register at Wikipedia to turn the vote the next time someone tries to delete the article. If the deletionists come with formalistic arguments, just synthesize a few articles on sites that fulfill their WP:RELIABLE criteria. There's got to be somebody working for a commercial (read: non-blog) website who doesn't like deletionism and would post a small article on Nim (or any other topic suffering from the same problem) just to stick it to them.
- dom96 12y agoIf somebody on HN has a website like that and would be willing to do this then we would really love to hear from that person!
- DanBC 12y agoWikipedia is, for some things, severely broken. Your post will be seen by some wikipedians as a violation of some policy or other. (Off the top of my head there's sock puppeting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry "Do not ask your friends to create accounts to support you.")
- captainmuon 12y agoBut there is a difference between straight up sockpuppetry, and telling people "If you like Wikipedia but are unsatisfied with the way it currently works, then register and start contributing. If policy discussions or delete votes come up, vote the way you believe you should (namely in this case inclusionist)". Its a bit like encouraging people to go to elections to raise the voter turnout, to reduce influence of extremist parties. (Not that I'm comparing WP editors with extremists, its just that I believe in both cases there is a silent majority that risks being misrepresented!)
- DanBC 12y agoI know that and you know that. There are a considerable number of wikipedia admins who don't see it that way. There are even more young wikipedians who don't yet have adminship who take a hardline on that kind of thing - although to be fair WP has worked hard to reduce that particular malign influence. (Removal of "vandal patrol"; stricter oversight of twinkle and rollback use; etc etc).
- coldtea 12y agoSo here's a great way to fix it: next time Wikipedia does a donation run, post against it and advise people not to donate, explaining those reasons.