Hi,
David Goodman wrote:
Perhaps the best way of doing this is the admittedly laborious method of
personally communicating with new editors who seem promising and
encouraging them and offering to help them continue. The key word in this
is personally. It cannot be effectively done with
How about starting a campaign to grow and develop the community around
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snuggle ?
*Edward Saperia*
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:03 AM, svetlana svetl...@fastmail.com.au wrote:
- Look at newly created pages and collaborate on those with due care and
attention to the new people? That'd be nice. (although imo the drafts
process at English Wikipedia creates an unnecessary hierarchy -- I'd love
I think, especially given that the Foundation has indicated some
willingness to review their stance regarding such community initiatives,
it's time to revisit the idea of a time-limited trial of restricting
mainspace new page creation to autoconfirmed (and manually confirmed)
editors. The concern
Re Todd Allen's remark about raising the threshold for article creation to auto
confirmed: Copy-pasters, spammers, and vandals will probably largely be put
off by that requirement rather than bothering to fulfill it is an interesting
theory, the counter view is that vandals and other bad faith
