On 1 November 2011 23:39, Mateus Nobre mateus.nobre@live.co.uk wrote:
If the sources are so important to Wikipedia, this has to be easier to newbies.
The essential problem is that the Wikipedia community is newbie-hostile.
Not actively - mostly - but passively. They view newbies as trouble and work.
Hence all the pushes back against newbies - trying to further restrict page creation and so forth, the problem with citations, defending the impossible markup, open hostility on Special:Newpages ...
So how to make the other side of the newbie experience not suck for the incumbents?
- d.