On 14 January 2015 at 17:00, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Wikiprojects are a very important and long-standing part of the community infrastructure of Wikipedias - and (IMHO) hold the key to helping support new editors through the crucial first 20 newbie edits.
Good ones do; bad ones are the opposite, and act as foci for territorial "owners" who see off outside editors and enforce their own vision of how Wikipedia should work, even where that contradicts wider community consensus (and in doing so often reinforce systemic biases). It would be good if this project could examine how that happens and how it can be mitigated.
If anyone has ideas for how Wikiprojects can be improved. List them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_X
Will do.