On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4 January 2013 13:03, Fred Bauder
<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net> wrote:
With respect to welcoming and assisting new users
on the English
Wikipedia where there is a bewildering volume of varied activity by new
and experienced users it might be helpful if we had a recent changes
options that showed only edit by new editors with less than say 100 edits
that could be monitored. Newbie helpers could then welcome, comment,
compliment, or otherwise assist the new user. Obviously access to such a
recent changes option by those looking for trouble could also be used in
ways that would discourage the new user. Perhaps access could be limited
to only flagged newbie helpers.
How would we stop Twinkle/Huggle users from using such a feed as a
shooting gallery?
By blocking the hell out of anyone who thinks that is a good idea. We as
editors are not idiots. The trench mentality which is understandable but
inexcusable has been condoned for too long. Anyone who - in good faith,
understandably by the mind-numbing idiocy poured out in our recent changes
by various forms of bad faith and incompetence - fucks up by scaring off
our good faith new editors that need help rather than templating (which is
not help in any recognisable form) needs to stop doing what they are doing.
If our vandalism fighters can't be held to those standards, they shouldn't
do it.
- d.
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