[WikiEN-l] New Wikipedia Forum

Tris tris at waterhay.co.uk
Fri Apr 24 15:33:17 UTC 2009


Hi all,

I am launching a new forum for Wikipedia users.  Please feel free to ask any 
questions, either to me at this address or to admin at thewikipediaforum.com.

The Wikipedia Forum aims to provide a place where all Wikipedia users can talk, 
suggest, comment & argue.  Wikipedia itself provides no easy & accessible way of 
doing this-Wikipedia talk pages are confined to topics that directly relate to the 
article & conversation between multiple users is unwieldy & confusing.  Mailing 
lists are also confusing & do not scale very well to large conversations between 
many people, resulting in full inboxes containing a large number of emails quoting 
the previous one & taking up 4 pages.
Users are free to talk about anything with very little censorship, yet the aim is 
not to become a forum for Wikipedia haters.  Instead it caters for everyone, from 
the average user confused about how to add templates, to administrators wishing to 
discuss complex articles in private.
Totally free & requiring no public information that can be linked with your 
Wikipedia account(unless you wish it to be), there will be a minimal amount of 
moderation, but only to ensure there are no personal attacks & insults-criticism & 
complaints are perfectly welcome-they make Wikipedia better for all of us.

The forum is at www.thewikipediaforum.com.  Please visit & join in.

Thanks!





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