Vector has email this user but only if you expand the toolbox. If
newbies look for it under Interaction they won't find it. Personally
I think that Emailing someone is more about interaction than it is a
tool. But Monobook neatly sidesteps the issue by making it a clear
choice in the sidebar
This issue hasn't been raised in the past, I personally think talk pages are
a better medium of conversation, in an email only one person can help unless
the mesage is sent to a list, i.e. this list. We should be encouraging new
users to engage in talk page discussions, not emailing other users.
Development is being consciously moved to this model, because the devs
have realised that repelling the volunteers is a bad idea.
That's *great* news!
A lot of the community upset about every little thing is just why
wasn't I consulted? [1] Sometimes this is appropriate and
reasonable,
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:32 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
So the question that this leads me to is this: what can we do to improve
communication between these two groups. How can we vocalize the communities
thoughts, ideas and independence. How do we get the creativity
On 7/1/2011 2:32 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
Very little discussion ocurrred r.e. rolling this out. For example no trial
was offered, no Request for Comment was taken to guage community opinion.
I know these are our processes and a significant part of the blame lies with
the editors - but even
On 1 July 2011 20:32, Thomas Morton morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Very little discussion ocurrred r.e. rolling this out. For example no trial
was offered, no Request for Comment was taken to guage community opinion.
I know these are our processes and a significant part of the blame lies
This reminds me somewhat of the Vector rollout, I've just today come
across another example of why we need to upgrade newbies to Monobook
once they start editing. Monobook has a rather useful Email this
user option in the sidebar. I suspect Vector has something hidden
away in a dropdown menu, but
Hey All,
This new feature has caused a bit of flack on English Wikipedia; which gives
me a bit of a platform to bring up some issues that have been rolling round
in my brain recently. A lot of the criticism on Wiki has been overly harsh -
so I want to try some constructive feedback here on the
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Thomas Morton
morton.tho...@googlemail.com wrote:
Those problems are to do with editor interaction, poisonous atmosphere,
lack of communication - but not the sort that can be solved by slapping a
template on the page.
Editors fight because we throw them into an
On 2 July 2011 13:01, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote:
Editors fight because we throw them into an arena. Arenas have lots
of benefits, but they're a tad stressful for most.
When we open up something that's not an arena, we'll get to keep the
editors who like our mission but hate
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