The future of #wikipedia? Women !!

The Bebaskan Pengetahuan 2010 competition is doing outrageously well; consider:

• the number of regular editors have more then doubled
• over 60% of the top 6 are female
• the quality of the articles is second to none
• universities pit their best against each other and, it is a no holds barred competition

The students of the 10 universities  really have to work hard; they get extra points for editing every day, every sentence has to be supported by an appropriate reference even taking part in the discussions using the talk pages is valued in this competition. Not only will many new quality articles be created, as important a new generation of Wikipedians find their way into our project.

Out of 87 participants only 37 are allowed to continue in the competition. This is based on the quality of their contributions. At this time Kartika Sari Henry is the best of the best. This is certainly a project that breaks new grounds.

For the Public Policy project it will be impossible to make as much of a difference. It is even easy to argue that their project would benefit by reaching out to the Indonesian universities because they and for instance a Russian and a Dutch university are needed to prevent the inevitable bias that will be the result when only American schools take part in this project.
Thanks,
      GerardM

Public Policy Project

The latest #Wikimedia Foundation project aims to cover the subject of Public Policy. It is an experiment on the English Wikipedia aimed to experiment with bringing subject matter experts to work effectively on Wikipedia.

It will be interesting to learn how the Neutral Point of View squares up with American experts writing about a contentious subject like public policy. The project will be run from the San Francisco office and one of the other goals is to develop a model that can be used by the chapters for other subjects.

At this time 52.9% of the traffic of the English Wikipedia is by the US public. The challenge will be to represent the view of the other 47.1% of the public.
Thanks,
     GerardM