I'm going to contribute to this thread "backwards", replying first to this message and then replying to other peoples' reply. I hope other people don't mind at all.
here's a nice post by someone who's been contributing occasionally since 2004, about how daunting "wikibullying" can be for newbies and other editors who aren't well-versed in the procedures and processes.
I ask again. Is there any way at all to make Wikipedia less daunting?
I wandered over once to a non-English Wikipedia. I forget which language it was in, Portuguese maybe. The universal sign for disability (the wheelchair stick figure) and a cognate for "accessibility" was right there *on the front page*.
Unfriendliness is built into the system, even when admins and others who enforce the rules are perfectly civil and try to be friendly at an individual level.
I personally try to be friendly. I do. Other people have noted this in the past. It's, ultimately, the system that's so unfriendly.
I can't help but notice that the author of this article keeps trying to add articles that aren't to our standards. Maybe make people who are writing their first (or second, or third, if the first or second is deleted) article go through the article wizard? That way, some (or perhaps all) of his articles would've eventually been deleted, but at least they would've been sourced and at least somewhat of a NPOV?
Emily On Sep 18, 2009, at 8:36 AM, Sage Ross wrote:
This isn't a new issue by any means, but here's a nice post by someone who's been contributing occasionally since 2004, about how daunting "wikibullying" can be for newbies and other editors who aren't well-versed in the procedures and processes.
http://travel-industry.uptake.com/blog/2009/09/04/bullypedia-a-wikipedian-wh...
Unfriendliness is built into the system, even when admins and others who enforce the rules are perfectly civil and try to be friendly at an individual level.
-Sage
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