The impression I get from experienced users is that they are much annoyed and use now some work around to get things done, but they do not understand it.
Less experienced users do not understand it either and also aren't able to add site links any more. Instead they ask experienced users to add it for them as they do not manage themselves to do it.

Explaining to less experienced users was never easy, but now I can't let them understand at all. The current version of the software of Wikidata is not built for less experienced and less technical users. The current situation is not logic and not understandable.
In general I am in favour of educating users how it works, but this isn't explainable as I have seen how inexperienced users already before had great difficulty working with Wikidata, even while they had a coach next to them. It is overestimated how easy the Wikidata software is, and underestimated how much less experienced and less technical users have difficulties with the software.
For Wikidata we need software that noobs can handle and can work with, so that everyone can participate in this wiki.

Romaine





2014-10-12 4:18 GMT+02:00 Scott MacLeod <worlduniversityandschool@gmail.com>:
Romaine, Lydia and Wikidatans,  

In what ways can we engage the weekly summary and the newsletter, and other approaches, for example, to help educate users about best ways to "add a newly written article to an item," or a language, easily, since wikidata/wikibase beneficial changes to Wikipedia may well lead to less authorial/editorial ease? 

Wikipedia's initial wondrous growth into 287 + languages is due significantly to ease of crowd-source editing this collaborative wiki encyclopedia, as I see it, and this is well worth trying to continue to facilitate for many, many reasons. Flourishing users and editors are one of the most important communities to nurture, as I see it. How best to help users understand wikidata?

Scott




On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Romaine Wiki <romaine.wiki@gmail.com> wrote:
For more than a year I am asking users to add their articles to Wikidata when they have written it. That seems succesful, they added their articles more and more and did understand how to do that. Until recently. Now I get more and more complaints from users that they do not understand any more how to add a newly written article to an item. They seem to have tried, but fail in actual getting it managed. That is a worse development!

Romaine

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