On 3 November 2011 09:45, Béria Lima <berial...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, no newbie will wake up and say: "I want to place references in > Wikipedia articles today" - they do because one of us asked them to do. And > all (maybe not all but most of) us know the software, and don't cost more > of our time ask them to use it. In fact a message explaining how to use > the software is far more simple than one explaining how to insert the > {{cite web}} template (and I know because I already send both to newbies).
Wikipedia should be a more or less complete web application. Suggesting people who've never edited before download software first strikes me as an effective way to reduce the new user pool drastically. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l