Andrew Lih wrote:
I used to tell folks writing for wiki was easy, and the inclusiveness of it has to do with not being like a database or data entry system. That has changed with templating now being extensively used around the Wikimedia projects.
Nowadays I pretty much tell new contributors "just write a few paragraphs and INCLUDE REFERENCES and don't worry about the fancy markup for now. Just INCLUDE THE REFERENCES and people will know it's a real article about a real thing."
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- d.