On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:03 AM, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net>
wrote:
With respect to welcoming and assisting new users
on the English
Wikipedia where there is a bewildering volume of varied activity by new
and experienced users it might be helpful if we had a recent changes
options that showed only edit by new editors with less than say 100 edits
that could be monitored. Newbie helpers could then welcome, comment,
compliment, or otherwise assist the new user. Obviously access to such a
recent changes option by those looking for trouble could also be used in
ways that would discourage the new user. Perhaps access could be limited
to only flagged newbie helpers.
These aren't power tools like what vandalfighters have in Huggle or
Twinkle, but I would check out the two following feeds of new editor
activity, if you want to give this kind of task a try:
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&contriā¦
shows newbie edits of all sorts
This is pretty cool cool. How hard would it be to hack together something
like the curation tool for which I have much love, but for recent changes
by newbies instead?
--
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedbackDashboard which shows the
positive, negative, and just plain confused comments by new editors who
have at least clicked the edit button once. This one in particular needs
attention from thoughtful, experienced contributors.
Steven
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