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 Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> article exist for an entire week. Guaranteed, your article will be >> marked for “speedy deletion” within about two minutes of its >> creation." bugged me, so I thought I'd unscientifically test it. >> >> I made a suggestion at >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/new_users#Lets_all_create_an_extra_account >> >> Nobody including myself knows how many articles have so far been >> created as part of the test, and yes one has already been deleted >> under the novel speedy deletion criteria of "the wikilinks did not >> have the proper markup". >> >> But there are at least two other articles that have survived more than 24 >> hours. >> >> Anyone else who is interested in following the test is welcome to >> watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment >> >> Two articles at least should be unveiled in the next few days. >> >> WereSpielChequers > > I particularly enjoyed WilliKing's comment: > >> My bad...I sincerely apologize. If I knew about the "challenge", I would >> have kept the article. It did have, though, words without proper wikilinks. >> Willking1979 (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC) > > I sympathize with him entirely; if I had known about the cop around > the corner, I wouldn't've casually shoved that woman off cliff. In my > defense, though, she was ugly. > > -- > gwern > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- -george william herbert george.herb...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
