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Personally, I think s...Thanks for the blog comment!<br />Personally, I think some women just don't see the point as to why they should add to wikipedia, as it is not a viable source of information, nor is it always reliable. I think that's changing, though, so it will be interesting to see how the pattern changes over the next few years.That Chelsea Girl™https://www.blogger.com/profile/07494368096032598858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-88399146502580373732011-03-10T15:49:25.943+10:002011-03-10T15:49:25.943+10:00Elocina I agree we definitely need to make it clea...Elocina I agree we definitely need to make it clearer how to edit/have better guides for our contributors- that's something that we're working on :) Also we did give an answer on Quora a month ago- http://www.quora.com/Wikis/Why-is-Wikifashion-a-copyrighted-wiki?q=wikifas<br /><br />Laura-We're not trying to cater to wikipedians or other wiki users- that's the point, our contributor base are mainly fashion bloggers, girls who would never even think to contribute to wikipedia. So it's fitting that we don't look like other wikis :)<br /><br />As I said to Elocina, we are working on ways to make it clearer for people to edit/contribute. This I agree needs work. Your 2,000 uniques per month is completely inaccurate and irrelevant to the point I'm trying to make. In regards to all of the features you list that wikipedia has, I think that is fantastic. When we have the resources available to us we will be implementing things that will allow us to have a stronger sense of community. At this stage we are completely self-funded and only have one programmer (working part-time) in contrast to mediawiki's team.<br /><br />Your comment about excluding visually impaired people again goes back to my last comment. This is not intended, nor have I said that I would ever want to exclude people. The entire premise for Wikifashion is to involve those who have previously been excluded from the fashion industry. Unfortunately until we have the funds/resources to implement these features we will not be able to cater for everyone. This is not to be nasty, we can only do as much as a two person team can do :)<br /><br />I didn't mention Quora to illustrate my point about women and wikis (I was simply trying to be comical). But I am actually a member of their fashion section and really enjoy contributing to it. The fact that there aren't many women has never put me off this. If you are receiving too much spam, perhaps considering changing your account settings, that's what I did?<br /><br />Nicci thank you for your lovely comment, it made my day! Your comment about competition being a motivator never occurred to me but it makes sense.Madeline Veenstrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270693650749625208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-71136939969593547392011-03-10T15:45:55.693+10:002011-03-10T15:45:55.693+10:00This comment has been removed by the author.Madeline Veenstrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03270693650749625208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-63924191739603865922011-03-09T21:44:55.949+10:002011-03-09T21:44:55.949+10:00What a refreshing article to read. I completely ag...What a refreshing article to read. I completely agree with you. One thing i would also like to mention though is that woman lack the testosterone-y ( just made that word up, obviously) competitiveness to "get there first". I'm refferring to my local scene obviously, where here men seem to have an ongoing competition as to who can wiki something before anyone else does, therefore starting the first article about it before it becomes known to the masses. I honestly think that women just don't give a damn about that kind of stuff, competition isn't a huge motivator.Nicci St. Brucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02312193383238604024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-17196289590514686922011-03-09T16:05:28.227+10:002011-03-09T16:05:28.227+10:00Coen, when I refer to lack of community, I talk ab...Coen, when I refer to lack of community, I talk about the keywords and the interface. The whole interface doesn't feel very wiki like to me. As I said above, to me, wikiFashion looks like it uses a WordPress skin. It doesn't look like MediaWiki, Wikia, Wagn or OddMuse (which powers Community Wiki). WordPress's back end is pretty much a wiki at this point, but the culture around WordPress is not that of allowing anyone to edit, having people identify as working together towards a greater good.<br /><br />Wikifashion? Become a contributor. <-- That seems like an invitation to come a blogger. Looking at the main page of Wikifashion, I wouldn't have had a clue I could edit it. I don't see any invitation to edit a page, get get content on the front page, to improve an article. <br /><br />You might have "cleaned up" and prettified Mediawiki's skin, but you don't appear to have integrated a sense of community in. Why should I edit your wiki? How will get a sense of ownership over it? Why edit Wikifashion (which gets probably 2,000 unique visitors a month and has a lower Alexa ranking than my site) at all? Wikipedia makes clear its invitation to contribute. It offers a clear chance to make the front page. It has templates where you can ask people for help. It has projects where you can contribute. It has IRC chat rooms and other community tools that you can easily to connect to the community. Wikifashion has none of that. I don't get a sense of community. And I don't understand why I'd want to edit Wikifashion.<br /><br />And damnit, Wikipedia has an invitation for people who are visually impaired to join the community by making it culturally imperative at the higher content levels to make pages accessible to them. That one still bothers me. "We love women. Wait. Except those that need screen readers. We've prettified the skin to exclude you."<br /><br />Oh, and I don't use Quora. Not a fan of it. It doesn't work for me as a tool. It is too complicated, too messy, too hard too find and it sends me too much spam mail. I've not heard much about it being a great community with a huge number of women. (I mostly hear about it from men in tech circles.)Laura Halehttp://www.ozziesport.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-28354473941515046362011-03-09T15:14:17.756+10:002011-03-09T15:14:17.756+10:00Hello,
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Agreed about the lack of community. At ...Hi Laura,<br /><br />Agreed about the lack of community. At the moment our contributors are a bunch of lone wolfs. We are currently working on a tightly integrated forum with talk pages as threads. Re community ownership i assume you are referring to our copyright licensing. You can read our response to this at quora:<br />http://www.quora.com/Wikis/Why-is-Wikifashion-a-copyrighted-wiki<br /><br />Understandably Wikifashion isn't very enticing to you as you are not our target audience. We are after the same crowd who use lookbook.nu, chicktopic etc, particularly fashion bloggers.<br /><br />CoenCoen Hydehttp://coenhyde.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-64721817428398687552011-03-09T14:21:04.031+10:002011-03-09T14:21:04.031+10:00To be honest, I'm looking at Wikifashion at th...To be honest, I'm looking at Wikifashion at the emphasis on galleries reminds me a bit of EncyclopediaDramatica. <br /><br />I'm looking at a page like http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Yasmin_Sewell and it all looks like a bunch of random images. I have no idea what they are of. The thing appears to heavily discriminate against people with screen readers, because it doesn't provide alternative text. Frankly, I'd take the images on Wikipedia over WikiFashion for that last reason alone. Lots of women rely on screenreaders, etc. because of disabilities and your suggestions seem to keep them out.<br /><br />I don't get the feeling that I'm being encouraged to edit FashionWiki. There doesn't appear to be any sense of community that I can plug into. This really isn't helped by the fact that the footer for the page looks like it came straight out a WordPress blog. That says to me: This is about the owner doing content creation. This is less about community ownership of the content.<br /><br />I'm looking at http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Category:Magazines and http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Category:Magazines and I'm not entirely certain of your point with this comparison. The absence of knowing if a category has subcategories or not is really confusing. It makes navigation feel less intuitive for me. If you accidentally scroll too far down, it makes the articles in the magazine section seem secondary to the huge ass footer.<br /><br />I don't find your response particularly compelling as it pertains to changing the format to encouraging editing because when I looked at yours? It doesn't. Do you think that FanFiction.Net, AnArchiveOfOurOwn.Org and LiveJournal do a better job than WikiFashion and Wikipedia in terms of actually meeting those ideals you speak of?Laura Halehttp://www.ozziesport.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2646317164598012441.post-86340247301699951072011-03-09T11:47:05.350+10:002011-03-09T11:47:05.350+10:00Hi Laura,
I will try to address some of the desig...Hi Laura,<br /><br />I will try to address some of the design elements you are referring to. But first you must realise that MediaWiki was created by a community that loves information. This is why MediaWiki looks and functions as to does. And for the most part this is good. As a tool to maintain a wiki it is very capable.<br /><br />However to users who do not place such a high value on information, MediaWiki by default is overload. <br /><br />Lets look at the category pages on both Wikipedia and Wikifashion. By no means are our category pages perfect I think we have a long way to go before they truly fit our users base but IMO we get part of the way there by simply stripping out some of the superfluous information.<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:G20_nations<br /><br />http://wikifashion.com/wiki/Category:Magazines<br /><br />Now you will probably be thinking, there is nothing wrong with Wikipedia's category page and that it's much better than Wikifashion's as you can find the information you are after quicker. Well I do agree, in that Wikipedian's contributors would find Wikipedia's category page much more useful than Wikifashion's. Wikipedia and Wikifashion do not have the same audience though and reasons for this are the issues we are discussing. <br /><br />The signal to noise ratio on on Wikipedia's category page is quite low. For example users generally do not go to category pages to find out how many sub categories are in that category, they go there to find a list of pages that belong to that category. Even the bullet points add to the noise.<br /><br />I wont go into further analysis of other features as I do not have the time but you may want to look at the following differences between Wikipedia and Wikifashion.<br /><br />- Image pages. Similarly to the category page we stripped out information though our images pages are ugly and need some prettifying. <br /><br />- Personal tool bar when logged in. We have a drop down instead of many links.<br /><br />- Over abundance of lines, dots and boxes on Wikipedia. Things like underscoring headers, extra boxes around gallery images, etc. All this stuff adds noise without contributing anything useful.<br /><br />Different strokes for different folksCoen Hydehttp://coenhyde.comnoreply@blogger.com