I have a more nuanced view. The community benefits from new editors who are acting in good faith and willing to learn.
I agree that treatment of new editors can be problematic. On the other hand, having become one of the "insiders", I now understand how English Wikipedia has a limited supply of skilled labor from volunteers who are trying to defend Wikipedia against vandals, conflict of interest editors, copyright violations, and other problems. There is a WMF team working to improve the onboarding experience. I'm cc'ing Marshal Miller (WMF) here in case he would like to comment. Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine ) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
