Дана Sunday 10 April 2011 06:36:22 MZMcBride написа: > featured article requirements or anything like that. They might be > inundated with too many links in welcome messages (which I view as a > largely separate issue from policy creep), but I don't think the vast > majority of editors pay any mind to the details of policies and pages that > even established users can't be bothered to keep up with. This is what some > argue is the actual meaning behind "ignore all rules." :-)
I too loathe the wall of text displayed to new users and believe it is highly ineffective. Some possible solutions I thought of are: Perhaps each newbie could get a short welcome message from "their" experienced Wikipedian who will later mentor them with specific errors the newbie made. Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could write a short message about what would they like to do on Wikipedia (this would become their user page). It would give us an idea on what part of guidelines to present to the new user, and also very needed insight on why do people just create account and leave. And I believe the most helpful, but the most difficult, would be the ability of on-site chat. If I see a new user making a rookie mistake, I open a chat window, the user sees "someone would like to chat with you" message, and we could talk about the mistake. Bonus point: there is no good free software on-site chat that I know of so we give one to the world :) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
