Surely making it only available to those users who understand markup completely undermines one of the great unintended consequences - that it's really useful for posting talkpage messages? New users can use those templates in a *perfectly* meaningful way - as a way of communicating instead of relying some pseudo-HTML markup language they're too new to understand. They could communicate...ohh, I don't know, just off the top of my head....maybe "can someone please explain to me how markup works?"
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Fae <f...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > There is a general view amongst Wikipedia admins that excessive > templating on user pages is poor practice. I frequently use an initial > (customized) welcome template for new users and do use standard user > warning templates for vandalism, though not for "regulars". However > these templates are not available to brand new users as tools such as > Twinkle will only be discovered after an editor has had a chance to > learn the basics. > > Wikilove has been implemented differently as a user sees the tab as > another early toy to play with and we now see a lot of new users > trying it out on their own talk pages as their first edit. At the > moment Wikilove works on an opt-out basis rather than an opt-in basis. > > PROPOSAL > > Let's change the Wikilove tab to only be visible to users after their > first 10 edits. Before this point, it is unlikely that new users will > be able to use templates in a meaningful way and this would also help > to keep the interface as simple as possible for the first few edits > made and targeted more on article content rather than user page fluff. > > Cheers, > Fae > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l