Submissions/Biography of living people : "Sorry I'm not dead"
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2011. |
- Review no.
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- Title of the submission
- Biography of living people : "Sorry I'm not dead"
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
- workshop
- Author of the submission
- Thierry Coudray (TCY)
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
- thierry.coudray@wikimedia.fr
- Country of origin
- France
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
- Wikimédia France
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
- Few month ago, a former French actor came at the WMFr office to said "Sorry I'm not dead". When he tried to change the uncorrect information on Wikipedia, its changes were immediatly reverted : "suspiscious change" ! Biographies of living people are often problematic on Wikipedia. What can we do to improve, prevent errors or malicious intent ? Make it reliable and neutral ? To enable those concerned to easily report an error ? , How chapters could help ? ...
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
- People and Community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
- yes
- Slides or further information (optional)
- May be a short introduction of 3 of 4 minutes with slides.
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- CT Cooper · talk 09:09, 1 May 2011 (UTC)
- Vibhijain 12:45, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
- Deryck Chan 23:21, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
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