On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Bence Damokos wrote:
We should also look at how anonymous editors are greeted, and the conversion rate of IPs into Users of such greetings.
Some Wikidemia-project contributors have long wanted to run such an experiment. You might talk to en:User:Tobacman about running such a study.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tobacman http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia (see 'Ongoing Studies' for ideas not yet implemented)
SJ
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Bence Damokos wrote:
We should also look at how anonymous editors are greeted, and the conversion rate of IPs into Users of such greetings.
Regards, Dami [[hu:User:Bdamokos]]
On 2/4/07, Robert Scott Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
Brianna Laugher wrote:
Hello,
Welcoming new users is a common community activity across many Wikimedia wikis. The idea is usually to do at least some of the following: give the user key links to core policies, an explanation of syntax/technical help, make them feel part of the community, and give them links to places to ask further questions.
Different projects can have different needs. For example, some non-English projects give links (in English) to Embassy or Babel pages, where they can ask questions in English rather than the language of the project. Also, non-Wikipedia projects can perhaps expect that most of their new users will be familiar with Wikipedia first, and therefore tailor their welcome messages with the expectation that the user already is familiar with the technical aspects, and emphasise the difference in policies between their project and Wikipedia.
cheers, Brianna user:pfctdayelise
There may have been a time when this was true for Wikibooks, but increasingly I am finding individuals (at least on en.wikibooks) who are coming into content development on Wikibooks first that have never been involved with Wikipedia at all on any level. One of the huge reasons for this is some minor publicity that is happening in regards to Wikibooks among educators and the broader educational community, and because it is growing to become a substantial project in its own right. There have been recently several articles in magazines written for educators who mention Wikibooks as an educational resource, and Wikipedia is mentioned only as a footnote.
The user community on Wikibooks is growing in ways that even surprise and astonish me from time to time.
BTW, just to plug something from Wikibooks, there is a Wikibook that you might want to get involved with that has been addressing some of these issues of project management from the viewpoint of a "sysop" on Wikimedia projects:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/A_Wikimedia_Administrator%27s_Handbook
This is essentially a new administrator's guide that we (the other Wikibooks admins and I) have put together primarily for our own internal training of new administrators, but we have written it with the intention that it would be generally of use for other Wikimedia projects and for other users of the MediaWiki software. Some of your suggestions that you have made here in this e-mail post I would like, with your permission, to add to this handbook.
-- Robert Scott Horning
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