Lars Aronsson wrote:

Even though I think Wikicat is one of most promising project proposals in the last few years, I fear it will have a hard time to explain, over and over again, the basics of bibliography to all newcomers who think they are experts. How can this project sort out the beginners and give them easy but meaningful tasks where they can be productive, without their ignorance causing damage?

One of the soft deliverables of the project proposal is documentation and hopefully a training regime to orient new users. The hope is that appropriate groups like Wikiproject Librarians could take up the responsibility once Wikicat became world-editable.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicat#Stage_1.0

Could we perhaps have a separate mailing list (wikicat-l) for discussions about Wikicat, even before the project is formally established? That would be an opportunity to establish some level of common knowledge and "get to know" each other.

It would be very useful, I think, to invite the members of Wikiproject Librarians to this discussion from the outset. If anyone knows of similar groups on the non-English Wikipedias please invite them as well.

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