Romaine, Lydia and Wikidatans,

In what ways can we engage the weekly summary and the newsletter, and other approaches, for example, to help educate users about best ways to "add a newly written article to an item," or a language, easily, since wikidata/wikibase beneficial changes to Wikipedia may well lead to less authorial/editorial ease?

Wikipedia's initial wondrous growth into 287 + languages is due significantly to ease of crowd-source editing this collaborative wiki encyclopedia, as I see it, and this is well worth trying to continue to facilitate for many, many reasons. Flourishing users and editors are one of the most important communities to nurture, as I see it. How best to help users understand wikidata?

Scott

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:

For more than a year I am asking users to add their articles to Wikidata when they have written it. That seems succesful, they added their articles more and more and did understand how to do that. Until recently. Now I get more and more complaints from users that they do not understand any more how to add a newly written article to an item. They seem to have tried, but fail in actual getting it managed. That is a worse development!

Romaine

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