Wikipedia expert. Principal, @WikiStrategies. taught Writing Wikipedia Articles online course; see @WikiOpen. Former Editor in Chief, @WikiSignpost.
Jan 3, 2019 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Here's a good preliminary recap, from @holden, of the Newspapers on Wikipedia project he started last May. But I strenuously object to even a hint of disappointment in the outcomes! Several reasons...I'll make my own short thread to outline them.
1. The hint of disappointment comes from the goal of doing 1,000 papers. But that goal was totally arbitrary! What funding this project had (which was highly significant, but also -- as a testament to the project's design -- tiny, in terms of the work produced) was proportional.
