[Wikimediaindia-l] Cultural differences with Indian newcomers

[theo10011]

One point that I wanted to mention Anirudh,

"The India noticeboard is a responsive place to seek advice if the user
finds
himself/herself embroiled in a dispute over India-related subjects."

We have a India Noticeboard??? on en.wp?

I don't know anything about it, how can you expect people joining in the
movement now to find it for themselves. How would they even know what the
noticeboard is for in the Wiki context. My suggestion related to easing them
into it.

Regards




> On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:34 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:48 PM, theo10011 <de10011 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Interesting point Srikanth, we can address part of the issue.
>> > I propose something like "Don't bite the newcomers" page, pref. located
>> on
>> > Meta where new Wikimedians especially the ones from India can ask
>> question
>> > to more experienced editors. It would be along the lines of Admin
>> > noticeboard, RfC page in terms of structure but any experienced editor
>> would
>> > be able to answer a newcomers question. They can watch their edit
>> history
>> > and even promote our "adopt a user" feature by experienced editors.
>> > We can announce this page on the India Mailing list, newcomers at
>> > wiki-meetups, regularly for any new comers. For a centralized location I
>> > would suggest locating it on Meta considering the experienced user base
>> and
>> > the multilingual community there. Any thoughts?
>> >
>>
>> I wouldn't attribute this to cultural differences. Let's be clear on
>> something, it's not only users from India who complain about rogue
>> admins and editors.
>>
>> [[w:en:WP:HD]] is still the best resource for new users to seek advice.
>>
>> Creating a redundant page on meta serves no purpose.  The India
>> noticeboard is a responsive place to seek advice if the user finds
>> himself/herself embroiled in a dispute over India-related subjects.
>>
>> I do understand that a significant number of new pages patrollers,
>> recent changes patrollers and some administrators are impatient with
>> new users and that leads to unnecessary escalation of conflict.
>> However, the underlying issue is much deeper and not exclusive for
>> editors from India.
>>
>> anirudh
>>
>>
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