The learning of the new editors have to be more instinctive and less bureaucratic. Seriously, who here, at the first time editing Wikipedia, read the policy BEFORE editing a lot? None. Everyone just reads the rules a long time after the beggining of Wikipedian life.
I think a system like used in Commons too, but now about editing Wikipedia. Could be used for IPs and accounts with less than 100 editions, for example, and concealable, of course. A system whick teach to newbies about the syntax ( that's the most complicated thin to teach newbies: [[ ]], {{ }} and of course, <Ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work= |publisher= |accessdate= }}</ref>)
It has to be discussed. It would be a important system, essential nowadays.
-----Mensagem Original----- From: Marco Chiesa Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:02 AM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Béria Lima berialima@gmail.com wrote:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ (in wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki )
right click and paste in the article. Easier than that can't be ;)
There are a lot of tools available to make the life of a Wiki editor simple. The problem is that by the time you come into them, you have already learned how to do things, where to find templates. I think we need to develop a kind of wizard similar to the one used in Commons. For example something like: *What is the article about? with specific instructions for some of the commonest categories (biographies, films, geographic places *Write the text *Wikify it *Add references. Is it a book? A website? The templates are straightforward to fill but difficult to find *Preview and proofread *Save it
Cruccone
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