On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Peter Coombe <thewub.wiki(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:The_Wikipedia_Adventure
which is a project very much along these lines. I'm not sure what the
current status of that is, but it definitely seems like a good
approach for at least some groups of newbies.
There is some neat tech that the E3 team has plans to use, which would
also be a good framework for this kind of interactive training:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Guided_tours
On a less interactive level, we've also got some trainings tailored to
different groups of people:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training
We've never really tried systematically pointing newbies to a
structured orientation (as opposed to giving them 10 or 20 links to
explore without guidance).
-Sage