On 22 May 2012 17:48, Carcharoth <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/22/12, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: >> Brian McNeil's productive work in Edinburgh. I particularly like the >> idea of recruiting newbies at libraries - with all those lovely old >> printed references right there to hand. Get those library computers >> being used for more than webmail. This could work anywhere. > > You are not telling [me] that this isn't a perennial proposal? It's > blindingly obvious. The issue is not recruiting newbies, but keeping > them and getting them to understand how Wikipedia works, and then to > be productive instead of getting sucked into the various drama-fests.
Would be time to discuss the "how", not just the "what", then. How to get newcomers over initial hurdles. Just as with the issue of article quality, there is a bit more to it than may seem at first sight. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
