> I can > see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic > orientation.
I see that too on new page patrol. I'll, through twinkle, put a "you're article might be speedily deleted" temp on somebody's talk page, and it'll be the first thing that they get on their talk page. Emily On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> 2009/6/25 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: >>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett >>> <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauder<[email protected] >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>>> The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable >>>> to >>>>> vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every >>>>> page >>>> under >>>>> "Interaction", so it's pretty prominently placed. >>>> >>>> No way. I was over 5000 edits before I even noticed it for the >>>> first >>>> time. And pfft, "community portal" - what an inviting link to click >>>> on! >>> >>> Maybe "free drinks"? :-) >>> >>> To be fair, I discovered the community portal early on. However, I >>> didn't use it much then, and still don't use it much now. It does >>> point the way to some interesting places, though. >> >> I don't use it much either and I didn't in the beginning. It's not >> very visible to me using the Monobook skin and I only glance at it >> once or twice when I'm browsing, nothing more than that really unless >> I want to seek something out and find other things available. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Isabell Long > > Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for > people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the > "game" itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very > paternalistic, but constantly processing unblock requests, as I do, > I can > see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic > orientation. > > Fred Bauder > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
