David Gerard, 04/01/2013 14:10:
On 4 January 2013 13:03, 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.
How would we stop Twinkle/Huggle users from using such a feed as a
shooting gallery?
[[special:contributions/newbies]] has existed for a while now.
Of course it's just newbies in the very technical sense of
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Newly_registered_user , which by default
(but not en.wiki) is only a temporary condition almost nobody is in, for
the sake of throttling vandals.
Nemo
Following up two edits at random resulted in a link to spam posted on de
in 2003
This is not easy; lot of these edits are not good or to be encouraged.
It's hard to avoid taking the role of first person shooter.
The coding could be improved though, or an additional option added
including edits by users with less than say 100 edits.
Fred