How about starting a campaign to grow and develop the community around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snuggle ?
*Edward Saperia* Conference Director Wikimania London <http://www.wikimanialondon.org> email <[email protected]> • facebook <http://www.facebook.com/edsaperia> • twitter <http://www.twitter.com/edsaperia> • 07796955572 133-135 Bethnal Green Road, E2 7DG On 26 August 2014 13:03, svetlana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > David Goodman wrote: > > Perhaps the best way of doing this is the admittedly laborious method of > > personally communicating with new editors who seem promising and > > encouraging them and offering to help them continue. The key word in this > > is "personally". It cannot be effectively done with wikilove messages , > > and certainly not with anything that looks like a template. Template > > welcomes are essentially in the same class as mail or web > > "personalized"advertisements. What works is to show that you actually > read > > and appreciated what they are doing, to the extent you wanted to write > > something specific. > > Thanks, I agree. I'm pretty passionate about making a difference in this > area. I would personally go and start doing that /right now/, but the > question remains open: Which activity should I engage in for all that to > happen? > > - Look at recent edits and collaborate with new people? That's a most > thankless item on this list, perhaps, as people edit more than anything > else. > - Look at newly created pages and collaborate on those with due care and > attention to the new people? That'd be nice. (although imo the drafts > process at English Wikipedia creates an unnecessary hierarchy -- I'd love > to remain a peer and treat the newcomer as a source of wonderful knowledge, > not as a reviewee or mentoree. For this reason, I might perhaps only do > this to articles created in main namespace.) > - I had written a script [2] which makes draft review things more personal > by not using a template in review comments, but I couldn't figure out whom > to approach to get it deployed, or how to prevent ugly [3] templates on > talk pages of people who submitted a draft for review. > - Reworking the welcome template into something else? Into what > specifically? > - There are other things I tried to do, such as leave simple short > messages such as [4], but I have not been doing enough of them to figure > out who likes them. > - Many many examples, warning vandals for example, completely template > thing, they get reborn as trolls, etc. see also [5]. But there is a need to > not feed them still, i.e. put some effort into personal communication but > not too much. > - Figuring out how to provide IP contributors with more software, up to > the point it's technically possible? ([1] lists some software limitations). > - <add your thought here> > > How do I set priorities in such list? Where to start tackling the problem? > > svetlana > > [1] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Musings_about_unregistered_contributors > [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Gryllida/DraftsReview > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Artistintown > [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:128.194.3.84 > [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Clogged_talk_pages > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
