Re: [Commons-l] Good words for upload form from formerly frustrated prospective user

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 David Gerard wrote: | 2008/8/1 geni <geniice(a)gmail.com>om>: |> 2008/8/1 David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>om>: | |>> Well, yeah. Can any of the tl;dr be removed? I realise instruction |>> creep only works upward ... | |> Probably not but I'm not sure which of our collection of simplified |> upload forms you are talking about. | | | Per context, [[Special:Upload]] on Commons. See, at one time, when there were many fewer uploads, and many fewer admins, we looked at new people's uploads and helped them out with understanding what they were doing wrong, why something is not free, what they need to say while uploading, maybe show them a bit of template magic, while we're at it. We'd do this by going to their talk page, and ~ leaving a few kind words. If it was evident it was a language we didn't understand, we'd find a nice admin in their language who would also help them. Now it's like a video game; search for copyvios and destroy... beep beep, boop boop... pow pow! don't hit that one, that's a friendly one! Pow! 2500 points! - -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 415.839.6885 x 601 Fax: 415.882.0495 E-Mail: cary(a)wikimedia.org