Kerry, Did you really mean "not allow" here? IMO we (WMF, researchers, Wikipedians) shouldn't be in the business of creating Yet Another Barrier to newcomer contribution.
*Suggesting* that people avoid making their first edit to the article on Donald Trump, etc.--sure, that's a good "teachable moment" and probably helps shield newcomers from unnecessary confusion and hostility. I also believe that we could make progress by *recommending *articles for newcomers to edit based on some combination of 1) quality improvement needed, 2) low likelihood that good faith edits will be immediately reverted 3) topic is of general interest OR topic is likely to be of interest to newcomer based on their stated preferences or their editing history. The data necessary to run a study like the one you're looking for is all public and so I think a study like this could be done. But to my knowledge no one has done it yet. - Jonathan On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:42 AM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 20 March 2018 at 11:40, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > > > I can understand your reasoning, but consider who this would impact > > things like [...] > > *how* this would impact... > > Apologies. > > -- > Andy Mabbett > @pigsonthewing > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > -- Jonathan T. Morgan Senior Design Researcher Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
