Sure, I've seen those. Is it user-friendly enough? Probably not. Would any non-Wikipedian know where to find them? Not a chance...
I live in DC, work in social media, and most of my associates are tech-savvy professionals who look at Wikipedia and think "that's way too hard for me." I like that video on the Bookshelf page, which reminds me a lot of CommonCraft's "Twitter in Plain English<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o>" but they already usually know that. Where to begin making edits in an informed manner, that's another story. On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Bod Notbod <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:57 AM, William Beutler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I've had the notion to pitch a "Complete Idiot's Guide to Wikipedia" to > > someone (actually tried, once; got a friendly note from an agent that it > > "wasn't for [him]"). I do think there is one to be written, whether I get > to > > it or someone else does... > > Have you seen this? Have a look at the PDF: > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf > > And there's plenty more proposed publications that need input for the > same series: > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_Deliverables_(Bookshelf) > > Project home page: > > http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project > > _______________________________________________ > 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
