User talk:Luciademedici
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Thank you for the contributions. :) --Laura 16:54, 27 December 2007 (CST)
Just wanted to echo Laura's thanks! Your contributions to the Wiki are very appreciated :) --Sidewinder 11:27, 29 December 2007 (CST)
[edit] Fan History: Bias revisited
Hey. Had a conversation last night with some one that pointed out that one of the external criticisms was that it is very easy to view Fan History as a personal monograph that too heavily reflects my own personal bias. For me, this seems like a perfectly valid criticism and has some elements of truthfulness. It isn't helped by my own frequent use of the term my when describing Fan History and with other administrators seemingly going to me for the final word on the changes that they want to do. This issue was then discussed with another person regarding the validity. The following suggestions were made and looking for feedback on them so I can figure out how to behave and to help improve the quality of the histories on Fan History by making it more accessible to others:
On wiki issues
1. Get rid of timelines and other lists. They aren't history. Use paragraph structure as that is a history, as opposed to be being a list of facts.
2. Stop using the templates linked on Help:Contents. Remove all the blank sections. Allow contributions to develop more organically.
3. Remove references to me as the final go to person for decisions made on Fan History on the main page, all about pages and help pages.
4. Remove the philosophy of wiki page. Remove statements regarding bias. Make the about page much flatter and factual, with out any statement regarding purpose, audience, who can edit. Should not need to be stated.
Contributor issues
5. For me to stop personally editing much, stepping back from the wiki for a month or two, allowing the current administrators and others to become more active with out the fear of me sitting on the sidelines, waiting to impose my philosophical mindset on the history being presented.
6. Paying for advertisements on external sites in order to get contributors outside the narrow audience that Fan History currently is receiving.
7. Using an account not tied into my personal accounts to promote wiki inside of fandom that administrators have shared access to. Have other administrators use them and actively promote the wiki as where I've already been doing but removing the personal tie ins that I tend to have. Assign administrators specifically to promote the wiki as part of their role of admins.
8. Approaching people affiliated with other philosophical mindsets for the wiki and offering to pay them to become active contributors on the wiki and do lots of edits in order to give clear voice to alternative perspectives in fandom.
Anyway, thoughts on any and all of the above? What should be implemented? How should it be implemented? If implemented, what would you be willing to do in order to accomplish these tasks? --Laura 08:50, 8 January 2008 (CST)
