In fact, I am amazed with how little help pages and community building elements the small Wikipedias have come so far. But they remain small communities, and I suppose this has to do with a lack of these elements. Without, it is difficult for new people to join and actually fit in and stay. Therefore "Multilingual Wikipedia" at Meta includes also a manual: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Manual_for_small_and_new_Wikipedias Ideas and corrections are welcome. :-)
Because people like GerardM from Betawiki and others have to migrate from village pump to village pump to inform about useful thing for all Wikipedias, I have set up http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/All_Wikipedia_Pin_Board but for so long I am the only who ever posted... Maybe it will work, maybe not. Without doubt, it would at least save a lot of work to GerardM. :-)
Ziko
2008/8/29 Ting Chen wing.philopp@gmx.de:
Samuel Klein wrote:
I agree this is neat. Also, can we have some wiki-group where people from one community who have a nice practice (welcoming, making portal pages, celebrating holidays with art) visit young new communities and teach them how to do it?
(sort of like groups that teach new residents of a town to speak the local language)
SJ
Yeah, good idea. Ting
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