2012/8/21 Maarten Dammers <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > Wiki Loves Monuments will (hopefully/probably) attract a lot of new users to > Wikimedia Commons. Wikimedia Commons is a very nice project, but it can be > very scary and hostile for new users. On the English Wikipedia they have a > new project called the Teahouse > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse). This is a friendly place > to (peer) support new users created because the English Wikipedia deals we > the challenge as we do. > > What do you guys think of setting up a similar place as the Teahouse at > Commons for the months September and October to help welcome and keep our > new community members? I made up the name "Château" because that sounds > friendlier that "castle" and makes me think of a historic building. This is > all open for discussion, but I'm especially interested if people like the > concept and would be willing to help out on this.
I love the concept and I love the name "Château", it is a French word by I think it's a quite common and well-know one. (but I'm biased since I have studied French many years at school) Cristian _______________________________________________ Wiki Loves Monuments mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikilovesmonuments http://www.wikilovesmonuments.org
