Great idea Declan. In online & f2f workshops the facilitators can take the responsibility of adding & deleting the category. When we introduce new members to WikiEducator at personal level (not in workshop), we as individuals can do the same. Good possibility of solving the problem. warm wishes Gita Mathur
Dr. Gita Mathur [email protected] Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College, University of Delhi New Delhi 110049 Web. http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur Please do not print this email unless it is absolutely necessary. On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:07 AM, Declan <[email protected]> wrote: > When I joined WE some years back I was warmly welcomed by several > Wikieducators and I returned the favor to folks who came after me. But now > instead of looking through the recent changes for folks to welcome, I look > through for spammers to block and then delete their content. Jim actually > does the Lion's share of this work, but it's unfortunate that effort must > go in that direction. I don't believe there is an easy way to stop this. > Instead I propose that we identify the real Wikieducators. > > I invented a category that we can use to tag legitimate Wikieducators. We > can look to the category page to identify those valued new users who are > actually here to participate and not sell garbage. In that way, the > regular users can be confident that they are welcoming promising > participants and not wasting keystrokes on spammers. If you are aware that > a new user is really a participating Wikieducator, I propose that we tag > these real users by placing this: > > [[Category:WE]] > > ....."Wiki Educator" on their user page. Members of the WE community can > periodically welcome newcomers by visiting this page: > http://wikieducator.org/Category:WE > > Perhaps once the new person has been welcomed 3 or 4 times by different > users, the person doing the welcoming should remove the category from the > new user page to slim down the category and make it easy to see the new > folks? Any thoughts? > > Cheers > > Declan > > -- > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "WikiEducator" group. > To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org > To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "WikiEducator" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
