[WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

[kgnpaul at gmail.com]

Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum.  These are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so there's certainly more.

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Emily Monroe wrote:

> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to  

> tell people to please not be BITE-y?



*pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D



> We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after  

> reading about things in the news, only to run into someone  

> unfriendly or rules-bound.



I agree. Maybe have a Signpost-like note to everyone subscribed to  

Signpost? Maybe have that actually in the Signpost? Something like  

"Editors note: There's an influx of newbies, so please be patient".  

How will that work?



Emily

On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Carcharoth wrote:



> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM,  

> kgnpaul at gmail.com<kgnpaul at gmail.com> wrote:

>> For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking  

>> about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT.  Here's  

>> to that.

>

> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to tell

> people to please not be BITE-y? No, seriously. We don't want a large

> influx of editors arriving to help after reading about things in the

> news, only to run into someone unfriendly or rules-bound.

>

> Carcharoth

>

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