On 11 March 2012 08:56, Oliver Keyes <okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
A low barrier to contribution is not a problem. What we are trying to fix
is the overwork of patrollers and the fact that new editors go into the
article creation process unaware of what to expect and ignorant of policy,
which understandably ends up leading to disappointment.
Still not happy with this formulation. I think the sentences contradict
each other.
You are trying to fix, you say,
*potential disappointment of new editors;
*overwork of patrollers.
Unless you discourage some contributors, the volume of contributions would
be the same? The nature of the contributions would not necessarily be the
same. I would certainly be leading off with "To avoid disappointment at the
outcome of our process, please take a moment ...".
But in any case what you are apparently trying is to fix is the _nature of
contributions of inexperienced editors_. There is a may/must distinction in
how you go about it, which seems to me to be key.
Charles