The problem with the approach that we can let the welcoming and
friendliness be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years into
this
and it's simply... not.
However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing
rules.
This is a lop-sided approach. To
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, wjhon...@aol.com wrote:
The problem with the approach that we can let the welcoming and
friendliness be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years
into this
and it's simply... not.
However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of
The actual work of helping new editors and monitoring quality does not
require an admin, and most of the people doing it are not admins. The
main thing I use admin tools for is to delete hopelessly unacceptable
articles, but almost everything I delete has been spotted by a
non-admin. However, most
on 2/26/11 3:52 PM, David Goodman at dgge...@gmail.com wrote:
The actual work of helping new editors and monitoring quality does not
require an admin, and most of the people doing it are not admins. The
main thing I use admin tools for is to delete hopelessly unacceptable
articles, but almost
Thesis:
The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the
reduction in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be
resolved simply by creating large numbers of new admins. This should be
done automatically. So why not just do it?
Argument and proposal:
Many admins
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Neil Harris n...@tonal.clara.co.ukwrote:
Thesis:
The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the
reduction in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be
resolved simply by creating large numbers of new admins. This should be
Harris
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Subject: [Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal
Thesis:
The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the reduction
in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be resolved simply
24, 2011 12:13 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: [Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal
Thesis:
The main reason why Wikipedia seems unfriendly to beginners is the
reduction
in the assumption of good faith. A lot of this could be resolved simply
by
creating large
