On 14 January 2015 at 17:00, Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt(a)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.
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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk