As a quick/rough data point I don't frequently edit wikipedia anymore, and
when I do I never log in.
About 2/3 edits no further interactions happen. About 10% gets reverted,
about 10% of the time I get a warning and the last 10% I get a welcome
template.
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, 15:52 Marshall Miller <marshall.h.miller(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Thanks for mentioning the WMF Growth team [1], Pine.
This is a really
interesting thread that has touched on much of what the team has been
working on alongside the Czech, Korean, Arabic, and Vietnamese Wikipedia
communities (and with the advice of people from many different communities
along the way).
We've tried to base our approach in research on newcomers, which taught us
that newcomers face three main types of challenges: technical, conceptual,
and cultural [2]. For instance, the research tells us that the rules of
the wiki are hard to learn, and that a negative first interaction can cause
a newcomer to leave the wiki and not return -- but that a positive
interaction, such as getting advice from a friendly editor, can cause them
to stay.
Over the last year and a half, we have experimented on mid-size Wikipedias
with features that promote good communication between new and experienced
users [3], that help newcomers teach themselves [4], and that give
newcomers easy tasks to do [5]. The goal is to build an experience for
newcomers that helps them get on a positive track in their first days on
the wiki, and want to stick around to join their communities. It's
possible that what we've learned and built so far will apply differently to
the largest Wikipedias.
I hope that anyone who is interested in newcomers can tell us about their
own experiences and ideas on our team's discussion page [6], or on the
discussion pages of any of our projects. It's very important to us that
the things we build fit in with how communities work today. Over the next
year, we're planning to expand the Growth features to more wikis, so we
definitely want to talk to people who think the features might be a good
fit for their wikis.
To keep informed about the Growth team, please subscribe to our newsletter
[7].
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth
[2]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/New_Editor_Experiences
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_homep…
[4]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Focus_on_help_desk
[5]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Personalized_first_day/Newcomer_tasks
[6]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Growth
[7]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Growth/Newsletters
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 3:07 AM Vi to <vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Not really, drawing practical advices/lessons
(e.g. "differentiate among
kinds of COIs") is the only sensible path towards solving issues.
"Let's be kind" is close to a tautology.
Vito
Il giorno mer 26 feb 2020 alle ore 09:59 Andy Mabbett <
andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> ha scritto:
On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 20:36, Vi to
<vituzzu.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hard to tell anything without the relevant link(s).
For you, maybe. Others have already given helpful replies.
My question was generic, and not about the specific case I gave as an
example.
I chose not to post links to to the example, both in order to avoid a
pile-on, and to avoid us being distracted by the minutiae of the
incident concerned.
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