On Saturday 23 October 2004 04:15, Ray Saintonge
wrote:
Our time is better spent in making the timid ones
feel at home.
I notice mediawiki does not have a facility for informing you about new user
registrations via the wiki, although an SQL query does the job. Perhaps
something like this could be implemented in the wiki to allow you welcome new
users more promptly. Welcoming and briefing new users is very important.
Welconing, yes. But what kind of briefing. Sometimes the best way to
proceed is by recognizing the good things in their early contributions.
You don't want to talk down to them by introducing a lot of rules from
the beginning. Useful tips (like using four tildes as a shortcut for
signing posts) give a more favorable impression than an immediate
lecture about POV.
Ec