[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Newbie recruitment: referencing

[David Gerard]

On 3 November 2011 12:22, Tom Morris <tom at tommorris.org> wrote:

> Perhaps this could be part of the article feedback tool: "is this article
> missing a source? could you tell us what it is?" - this would automatically
> dump a new section on the talk page with whatever they type in, along with
> a template called something like "potential ref" which would add a category
> so someone could go and check up on it. And, yes, I do know that this may
> seem like I'm coming up with a solution to the huge backlog of unreferenced
> articles by creating a new backlog of "articles which need a reference
> check". ;-)


I suggest that backlogs don't matter nearly as much as involvement and
drawing new people in.

Backlogs as a concern translate directly to "newbies are inherently a problem."


- d.