2009/12/5 Carcharoth <[email protected]>: > Give polite and constructive feedback on their editing, be gentle on > what they are doing wrong, leave them with plenty of ideas for other > things to do, and warn them that Wikipedia is a big place and some > people they meet will be quite abrasive. If they are already abrasive > themselves, support anyone they have upset.
"Wikipedia is part of the internet, so (a) there are a certain number of complete idiots (b) there are a certain number of people who will think you are a complete idiot. Whatever you do. Those of us here to write an encyclopedia learn to be patient and get on with it." > Or do you mean how to get them editing in the first place? That used > to be "click this red link and create an article". As the standards > for new articles rises and the links are to obscurer topics that need > a good start when created, that is harder to do. Maybe promote more of > the links to various projects such as disambiguation, wikilinking, > vandalism patrol, simple article clean-up, and so on. But don't throw > people in at the deep end and wonder why they are floundering. That's why missing-article lists occur to me as a good starting point - these are articles that someone has noticed we could do with. So a coupla good references and they're likely to stick. - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
