I don't know of any good way in which to guide newcomers towards that direction, though, especially in a "come-and-go"-type environment such as this.
When I came to Wikipedia, .. years back then.. I really liked the idea of stubs being sorted by the field of interest. I liked it and started to sort them and sort them in finer categories and such. In the end it does not look like success, like that it would help in any way.
But I would like to see some more invitation on those stubs like:
This article about plant biology is stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. *Or you can inspect and expand any other stubs about plant biology [linked here to the category:Plant biology stubs]
Basically : invite the reader/editor into the particular category of topical stubs from the article.
Petr [[u.Reo_On]]
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:55 AM, MuZemike muzemike@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think that is entirely reasonable thing to say or do, but, on the other hand, I wished that newcomers would be aware that creating new articles from scratch is not the only way to help contribute to the encyclopedia. Assuming that Wikipedia is still nowhere close to being complete, there are always going to be opportunities to expand existing articles - many of them that are still stubs. I don't know of any good way in which to guide newcomers towards that direction, though, especially in a "come-and-go"-type environment such as this.
-MuZemike
On 10/10/2011 7:08 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
The only important rule here is to be bold. We really ought to take more steps to disenfranchise those who repeatedly stamp on attempts to create
new
content. They know who they are, and I mean it. We should stop them hard.
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