Apologies for reviving a thread from three weeks ago. But the idea
that we had degenerated into a newbie biting place where one could
challenge a newbie to create an article on Wikipedia and have that
article exist for an entire week. Guaranteed, your article will be
marked for “speedy deletion”
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, WereSpielChequers
werespielchequ...@googlemail.com wrote:
Apologies for reviving a thread from three weeks ago. But the idea
that we had degenerated into a newbie biting place where one could
challenge a newbie to create an article on Wikipedia and have that
This is very good data in the how friendly are we to newbies question.
Thanks for running the test.
Please send another update in a couple of more days at least, I am too
busy to follow on-wiki but I want to see more of the results of this.
-george
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gwern
2009/10/9 George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com:
This is very good data in the how friendly are we to newbies question.
Thanks for running the test.
Please send another update in a couple of more days at least, I am too
busy to follow on-wiki but I want to see more of the results of this.
Personally, I think there should be a level above deletion and below
being visible in the wikipedia.
For example if we made the wiki's stubs come up with a blank screen,
with a disclaimer and some kind of clicky that makes the article
appear (possibly only if you're editing it or something).
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Ian Woollard ian.wooll...@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I think there should be a level above deletion and below
being visible in the wikipedia.
For example if we made the wiki's stubs come up with a blank screen,
with a disclaimer and some kind of clicky that
