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
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )