<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:F%C3%A6/talk_page_trimmer> on
Commons which 'shrinks' long notices on the presumption that noting a
possible "copyright problem" does not need lots of threats because not
everyone is a vandal. The code is open source, it's very stable and anyone
on Commons can opt-in.
A system of "friendly notice alternative bots" which newbies could opt-in
to if they act in good faith and want to take policies seriously could help
to make any project seem less hostile. Anyone that does something like ask
for help at a noticeboard, does not need to be shouted at by torch-wielding
villagers. I recall several newbies fleeing the project after getting just
a couple of very shouty notices and presuming everyone thought they were a
crimmo.
Fae
On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 at 01:50, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It would be nice to have a tool for long standing
editors to clean up a
newbies talk page for them, leave messages for the overeager templaters,
and help them out / welcome them in untemolsted language.
Then a little ML could go a long way in guessing which newbies are in this
situation and generating a queue for newbie-care. ~~~
đđđđ
On Wed., Feb. 19, 2020, 4:35 p.m. Andy Mabbett, <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk
wrote:
> I have just come across a case on en.Wikipedia where the daughter of
> an article subject added details of his funeral (his death in 1984,w
> as already recorded) and his view about an indent in his life.
> Her six sequential edits - her first
and only contribution to
> Wikipedia - totalled 1254 characters, and were conducted over the
> space of 30 minutes. They were no the best quality, lacking sources,
> but were benign, and exactly what one might expect an untutored novice
> to do as a first change.
> As well as being reverted, she now
has three templates on her talk
> page; two warning her of a CoI, and sandwiching one notifying her of a
> discussion about her on the COI noticeboard. These total 4094
> characters or 665 words.
> How do other projects deal with such
cases?
> --
> Andy Mabbett
> @pigsonthewing
>
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
>