On 4 January 2013 13:03, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > > The MUD I reference has both a MUD school where a presumably new user > goes through the basic game moves and is instructed in them and, much > more interesting and engaging, a complex Newbie zone where the new player > faces an increasing complex series of challenges which successfully > accomplish learning by doing. The coding on the particular MUD generously > rewards every "right" move with "experience", "money", and other goodies. > This is all very nanny and I doubt the average highly educated user who > is a university professor or professional could accept being put to > school in this manner in a compulsory way before being allowed to edit, > but it could be available as an option. We could even have a "practice" > wiki which was set up in this way as an option. Probably no one would use > it though, I suppose, so whatever is done would probably have to be on > the main site. It would be a sandbox, but a more active and monitored > one, actually a set of practice articles in sandboxes. >
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure which is a project very much along these lines. I'm not sure what the current status of that is, but it definitely seems like a good approach for at least some groups of newbies. Pete / the wub _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
