> On 22 February 2011 12:02, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> IMO every single Wikimedia project would benefit from dedicated >> community effort to 1) catalog the most widely used templates on talk >> pages, 2) systematically improve them with an eye on the impact they >> can have on whether people feel their work is valued and the >> environment in which they're contributing is a positive and welcoming >> one. This is something that anyone can help with, right now. > > +1 :-) > on 2/22/11 4:38 PM, Sue Gardner at [email protected] wrote:
> I spent some time this weekend on New User Contributions on the > English Wikipedia, reading the talk pages of new people who'd been > trying to make constructive edits. I was trying to imagine the world > through their eyes --- what their early experiences felt like. Some > had welcome templates and some didn't, and many also had templates > added that were probably intimidating for new people (warnings and > corrections of various kinds, mostly). > > So yes, I think efforts to make templates and bot notices friendlier > would be time well spent. > > I also wonder if we do any templating that's meant to be purely > encouraging good behaviour. Like, "Your edits to [x] article were > constructive and useful: thank you for helping Wikipedia," or "You > have just made your 100th edit: congratulations." That kind of thing. > Does anyone know: do we do much of that? And if not, should we? > I don't know whether or not it's done now, Sue, but it's a great idea! Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
