On 20 January 2016 at 17:51, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

> On 20 January 2016 at 20:56, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > It is an excellent and popular way to *celebrate* (not just describe)
> > good-faith new contributors.  The way it works is a couple of volunteers
> > who run the page look for a relatively new contributor who seems to have
> > successfully integrated on-wiki, and has made more than a handful of good
> > contributions, and they approach the new contributor with a request for
> an
> > interview and a description of this page.
>
> Sounds great. If en.WP do this as part of The Signpost, it would have
> a high level of reach, immediately. Same with Wikidata's weekly
> update.
>
>

Heh. I think back to when I first started editing.  I would have been
completely freaked out at that level of "notice" and would never have
edited again.

Risker/Anne
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