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
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Yes, a blog post is envisaged; we can already start thinking about suitable SM messages.
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:42 PM, James Alexander jalexander@wikimedia.org wrote:
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
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