The Teahouse on English Wikipedia has a guest profile page (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests), although it's low
traffic <http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests> I like
the idea of a higher profile way to welcome newcomers to the community.
Perhaps newcomers could be interviewed periodically in the Signpost.

Pine

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Amir E. Aharoni <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a page [1] that highlights editors who
> recently became active - shows a short interview with them and welcomes
> them to the community in a nice way.
>
> It's not so much a help and a support page like English Wikipedia, but more
> like a newsletter or a blog that describes newcomers, in a form of an
> regularly updating wiki page.
>
> Is there anything like that in other projects and languages? (Not
> necessarily Wikipedia, of course.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> [1] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BIK
>
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