[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Nov 6, 2007 6:07 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week
> This is happening.
>
> A perennial press story is "I was bitten as a n00b on Wikipedia" -
> every random interaction with a random en:wp editor is taken as
> representative and officially sanctioned.

It would be really really really helpful to see some links to
incidents. Many times these complaints come without citation.  I don't
disbelieve them, but there are many types and causes of these results
and they have vastly different cures.

It's not enough to simply say "be nicer!". Some times we need to say
different things like "New users haven't learned our customs, that
doesn't mean they are all jerks!"