Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response
would likely be tl;dr. I haven't realized it
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that due to the length of the text, new users' response
would likely be
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Nikola Smolenski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikola Smolenski wrote:
Nathan wrote:
My sense was that Nikola was using tl:dr to respond not to George's e-mail,
but to the process he described for creating a new page. I could be wrong,
though.
I wanted to say that
2008/12/5 George Herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I think these are valid concerns about my idea.
I would respond with But you can always create pages the existing way 8-)
But some new users won't want that much framework either. I don't
know how many different methods/paths we can set up for
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. David, has this been
proposed, discussed, modeled and rejected in the past? (It seems like it
must have, for something that is pretty common around the web).
[1]: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Add_an_article_-_basic.JPG
Nathan
2008/12/5 Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking about. David, has this been
proposed, discussed, modeled and rejected in the past? (It seems like it
must have, for something that is pretty common around the web).
[1]:
We could just build the thing and then ask permission to put in the
link on the default UI..
Forgiveness easier than permission, etc etc.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:25 AM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/12/5 Nathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This [1] is the sort of thing I'm thinking
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/12/3 David Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Nothing personal, but when tl;dr is given as a response, it indicates
that there is something certainly substantial and probably interesting
to be seen and understood--and possibly
Hoi,
So if the question to any of these questions is not positive a person should
not contribute ?
I would strongly argue that when a valid subject is identified and a plain
text of one or two paragraphs has been written we already have a winner. You
still want wikification, you still want
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Gerard Meijssen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hoi,
So if the question to any of these questions is not positive a person should
not contribute ?
I would strongly argue that when a valid subject is identified and a plain
text of one or two paragraphs has been
The major weakness may be the attitude of some Wikipedians, who treat
newbies rudely as if we would have an infinite reservoir of them. Our ideal
of openess (everyone can edit) has as an implication that new people come
in and make things we experienced Wikipedians consider as wrong. Pacience
and
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