Sharing on the public mailing list as a nice public spot to do it:

Thoughts on doing this as a blog post?

James Alexander

Legal and Community Advocacy

Wikimedia Foundation

(415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:16 AM, David Gerard <dgerard@gmail.com> wrote:

Suggestion: make this a blog post, then we have something to forward widely.

On 29 May 2014 09:24, Lila Tretikov <lila@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> I wanted to share my first editing experience and ask for your help. Here
> it is:
>
> Today I have made the first edit on English Wikipedia. As I said in my
> first meeting -- I believe in traveling the path of our editors, so I can
> better understand them and so taht we can make their experience more
> natural.
>
> I have edited in private wikis before and I have edited the talk pages. I
> used the Visual Editor, even though I am well-versed in the syntax. I had
> the advantage of a very very experienced user by my side and it went pretty
> smooth -- so this report is not entirely fair. Even though, I did stumble
> in a few places, however, and this is a learning experience for me and for
> our team.
>
> Overall I wish I had this on video. It is a bit like an experience of a kid
> making their first goal. Exhilarating.
>
> So now I have a challenge back to you:
>
>
>    - Please pick a friend who has never edited before.
>    - Ask them to make an edit. Any edit in any language.
>    - Please have them write one paragraph about their experience.
>    - Have them send it to lila at wikimedia with the subject: #1
>
>
> Thank you!!!
> Lila
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