I can see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic orientation.
I see that too on new page patrol. I'll, through twinkle, put a "you're article might be speedily deleted" temp on somebody's talk page, and it'll be the first thing that they get on their talk page.
Emily On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
2009/6/25 Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauder<fredbaud@fairpoint.net
wrote:
The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable
to
vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page
under
"Interaction", so it's pretty prominently placed.
No way. I was over 5000 edits before I even noticed it for the first time. And pfft, "community portal" - what an inviting link to click on!
Maybe "free drinks"? :-)
To be fair, I discovered the community portal early on. However, I didn't use it much then, and still don't use it much now. It does point the way to some interesting places, though.
I don't use it much either and I didn't in the beginning. It's not very visible to me using the Monobook skin and I only glance at it once or twice when I'm browsing, nothing more than that really unless I want to seek something out and find other things available.
-- Regards, Isabell Long
Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the "game" itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very paternalistic, but constantly processing unblock requests, as I do, I can see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic orientation.
Fred Bauder
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