Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-10-17/WikiProject report

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Yeah! Great to see NHRP covered. I take photographs of NHRP's and sites, so happy to see folks getting coverage about this. On a side note, Multichill developed a cool template for Commons photos of NHRP places! Hopefully this will come in handy if/when we can develop "Wiki Takes Monuments" in the US. Take a look of it in use here: Commons:File:Pioneer-hall-museum-tn1.jpg --SarahStierch (talk) 13:44, 18 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Yet again, wiki presents the US as the default setting. It's not history in 'my' neighbourhood as I am in the UK. Please, try to remember you have readers other than Americans. I wish the editors of the Signpost - and Wikipeida in general - would remember this. Look how many times a place in the US has no qualifying 'United States' to tell us which country it is, whereas even the most obvious places outside the US are given their country as a qualifier ({Paris, France? anyone). This habit of US editors of not giving the country and assuming that a) we all will know it anyway and b) the US is the default so if we don't know it, we'll assume it, is WRONG. This is an international encyclopaedia and should be edited accordingly - not one rule for the US and one for everywhere else. 86.133.212.131 (talk) 07:37, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, many Americans have poor geography skills, but there's no vast anti-Commonwealth conspiracy on Wikipedia. - Dank (push to talk) 16:10, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

No conspiracy here. We tend to treat projects as if we were locals regardless of the country, see the WP London Transport interview for an example. On a side note, the UK and commonwealth countries have been well represented this year, with four UK-specific projects, one Australian project, and one New Zealand project. We approached some Canadian projects, but there wasn't a lot of activity on those projects. -Mabeenot (talk) 18:02, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, as Mabeenot briefly mentioned, parochialism comes naturally. An example is your referring to Wikipedia as "wiki", as if it were the only wiki in the world. — JohnFromPinckney (talk) 23:49, 20 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]