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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