Hi. I’m helping to organize a Hacker (as in
“technology enthusiast”, not “computer criminal”) conferance this
summer called “The Last Hope” (Hope.net and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_On_Planet_Earth) in New York
City. I have been an active editor on wikipedia for the past 3 years
and have seen it go down-hill in terms of usefulness and appreciation
because of the deletionists’ barbaric destruction its content. Allot
of people in the hacker community don’t understand that this is an
epidemic on wikipedia as opposed to a series of isolated cases. As
such, I am planning on having a 1hr panel/session about this epidemic
at the conference. I’m still not sure whether it will be presented as
a neutral debate and/or overview of deletionists vs. inclusionists or
a warning about deletionists (or both), but I definitely don’t want it
to become a flame war. I was wondering if you would be interested in
helping me with the panel, or could just let me know who you think would be interested. Thanks!
volt4ire
02-06-2008 22:51
Hi. I’m helping to organize a Hacker (as in
“technology enthusiast”, not “computer criminal”) conferance this
summer called “The Last Hope” (Hope.net and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_On_Planet_Earth) in New York
City. I have been an active editor on wikipedia for the past 3 years
and have seen it go down-hill in terms of usefulness and appreciation
because of the deletionists’ barbaric destruction its content. Allot
of people in the hacker community don’t understand that this is an
epidemic on wikipedia as opposed to a series of isolated cases. As
such, I am planning on having a 1hr panel/session about this epidemic
at the conference. I’m still not sure whether it will be presented as
a neutral debate and/or overview of deletionists vs. inclusionists or
a warning about deletionists (or both), but I definitely don’t want it
to become a flame war. I was wondering if you would be interested in
helping me with the panel, or could just let me know who you think would be interested. Thanks!