Comments on: Will WikiPilipinas redefine what is notable?

By: email address friendster account friends cancel

email address friendster account friends cancel — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:26:37 +0000

email address friendster account friends cancel…

You want to have……

By: Nikko

Nikko — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:06:57 +0000

Ito rin ba ung project ng pinoyblogsphere?

By: Rico

Rico — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:49:03 +0000

I wouldn’t allow hate speech, but then again, how do you police everything?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 07:00:46 +0000

Good point… does Gus Vibal mean Free of price, or Freedom of speech/expression? If it’s the latter… then as in Marcvill’s example, is hate speech allowed?

By: Marcvill

Marcvill — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:06:41 +0000

I suppose they have copied all Pinoy-related entries found in Wikipedia and put it into WikiPilipinas. An example is the “Ateneo Volleyball Team” entry. WikiPilipinas is a duplication indeed but what’s more bothering is the fact that there’s really no system of administration. As Gus Vibal said (during the first press launch), you can even put up an entry about your “lolo”. Hence, it’s hip ‘n free. So the “free” really means anyone can put up anything.

Regarding the issue on ‘notability’, it’s interesting to note that their goal for WikiPilipinas is to be “self-regulating”. So if someone from the community writes something negative or not notable (like Malu Fernandez: an insensitive pig who was forced to resign after receiving death threats), then WikiPilipinas will rely on the same community to edit the entry and hopefully make it notable (perhaps, Malu Fernandez: a pig).

Siyempre joke lang example ko. Hehe. Anyways, there seems to be a lot of loop holes.

I wonder how bloggers will use WikiPilipinas to write entries promoting there blogs, hmmm…

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 10:15:49 +0000

So they are really spending on Wikipilipinas. They already have a far out hardware+bandwidth setup.

I wonder how they will make money off Adsense, when Pinoy clicks aren’t worth much there.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:34:41 +0000

Migs, they’re actually paying some call center’s free staff to write articles (like top 100 corporations, etc.). Then if they see that a particular article is getting popular, then they’ll order someone to improve the article.

By: Rico

Rico — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:56:37 +0000

Actually, what I said was that if WikiPilipinas starts enjoying high traffic levels, then it can actually be a gauge of what Filipinos consider important when it comes to information.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 07:42:30 +0000

Now I get it. It's Mahalo without having to pay writers. I think the free for all approach to information is OK but it shouldn't be in a wiki form. Instead, people should write and own complete articles (or even sentences). See everything2.com for an example.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:40:50 +0000

Been to the Bloggers Dinner last Friday night. They actually have no notability criteria whatsoever. As Gus Vibal said, “if you want to put up a biography of your lolo, it’s ok!”

As Rico observed during the dinner, it’s basically a free for all! You can put up any Pinoy information (try to be factual, eventhough you can’t prove it) on the website. Genealogies, family histories, barangay information, school club, etc. Heck, you can even place the about page, history page, member list page of your website!

They want WikiPilipinas to be an SEO magnet for popular Pinoy-related searches. They want Filipinos to go to WikiPilipinas for all things Pinoy. Gus Vibal even said that he doesn’t want you to buy a pinoy dictionary or pinoy travel guide or whatever and just go to WikiPilipinas.

Anyway, I’ll put up more of my thoughts on a post I’ll do later today. My original post that Abe linked above is more than a month old and is outdated.

By: Christian

Christian — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:09:34 +0000

“Hip ‘n Free” just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The history section is pretty much empty. Perhaps the site is a place to promote Filipiniana.net and other properties.

By: Manuel Viloria

Manuel Viloria — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:57:13 +0000

I searched for “sharon mercolita” in Google and got two pages. A search for “sharon vidal mercolita” gave me one page, Abe. This page!

It will be interesting to see how this notability issue develops over the coming weeks.

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:08:40 +0000

i think we should just stick with expanding the tagalog version of wikipedia. baka kasi maging “fancruft” lang yung wikipilipinas e.

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:36:44 +0000

Car Ocab has competition

http://www.andrewpolanski.com/

By: BrianB

BrianB — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:16:12 +0000

But will it have adsense?

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:43:11 +0000

In fairness, most of the user’s pages are in the “User:” namespace. And Sharon’s page is not that bad.

Now this… ToPzzPoT is a wikifriendster!

Now if these people have articles… so should Abe.. now where do I begin…

By: marhgil

marhgil — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:29:15 +0000

pahabol.. i checked Sharon Vidal Mercolita's page and it is listed on the Wikipiniana Volunteers. Hindi lang sya ang merong personal page, lots of them. See it here

By: marhgil

marhgil — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:23:32 +0000

kung magiging friendster lang yan, they should change the name to wikifriendster. I think, they should really have a notability guideline.