It is indeed one of my favorite community ideas on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Some of you have heard me pitch it at conferences. Let me add a couple of notes: It is an excellent and popular way to *celebrate* (not just describe) good-faith new contributors. The way it works is a couple of volunteers who run the page look for a relatively new contributor who seems to have successfully integrated on-wiki, and has made more than a handful of good contributions, and they approach the new contributor with a request for an interview and a description of this page. Those new contributors who are interested are interviewed and featured on the page. A fun additional feature of the page, is that alongside the one or two featured new contributors, there is a sidebar where some *veteran* contributor offers an appreciation of some other contributor. This page updates only once a month, and it's great to have these occasional reminders of appreciation among the old-timers too. Cheers, A. On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk &lt;tar.locesilion(a)gmail.com > Thanks Amir, this is inspiring :) by this, I mean, there's no such page in > Polish projects. > > As of enwiki, and in general, first of all, an interview sounds much better > to me than 'fill a template and become a part of this depersonalised crowd > below'. Second, traffic must be taken into account. I hope it's obvious a > page doesn't fulfil its function should isn't highly linked or read with a > permanent high frequency. Therefore, designing a page isn't such an issue > as much as providing traffic and good UX. > > On 20 January 2016 at 09:00, Pine W &lt;wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> > > The Teahouse on English Wikipedia has a guest profile page ( > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests), although it's > > low > > traffic <http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests> I > like > > the idea of a higher profile way to welcome newcomers to the community. > > Perhaps newcomers could be interviewed periodically in the Signpost. > > > > Pine > > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < > > amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> > > > > Hi, > > > > > > In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a page [1] that highlights editors who > > > recently became active - shows a short interview with them and welcomes > > > them to the community in a nice way. > > > > > > It's not so much a help and a support page like English Wikipedia, but > > more > > > like a newsletter or a blog that describes newcomers, in a form of an > > > regularly updating wiki page. > > > > > > Is there anything like that in other projects and languages? (Not > > > necessarily Wikipedia, of course.) > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > [1] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BIK > > > > > > -- > > > Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי > > > http://aharoni.wordpress.com > > > ‪“We're living in pieces, > > > I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore‬ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > > -- > *Szymon Grabarczuk* > > Free Knowledge Advocacy Group EU > Head of Research & Development Group, Wikimedia Polska > pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_Lócesilion > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > <http://pl.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tar_L%C3%B3cesilion> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Asaf Bartov Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! https://donate.wikimedia.org

On 20 January 2016 at 17:51, Andy Mabbett &lt;andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk&gt; wrote: Heh. I think back to when I first started editing. I would have been completely freaked out at that level of "notice" and would never have edited again. Risker/Anne

I'm sure there are plenty of people who would feel uncomfortable with that. So if something like that were to be done, people should certainly be asked first, and that only be done if they explicitly agree. Still, I think a lot of others would feel like their efforts are being noticed and appreciated. So long as it's opt-in only, I think it's a great idea. Several people have, from time to time, done "editor of the day" type things, but those usually only recognized people who'd already been around a while. One that specifically focuses on promising newer editors might work quite well and make people feel more welcome. On Jan 20, 2016 4:12 PM, "Risker" &lt;risker.wp(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

Amir, We feature community member profiles in Tamil Wikipedia homepage and Wikimedia India chapter archives. It gives a brief intro about their background and links to their significant Wikimedia related contributions. Tamil Wikipedia archive - https://ta.wikipedia.org/s/7pi Wikimedia India acrhive for 2015 - http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Featured_Wikimedian/Archive/2015 We do not interview but let them write these short profiles. There is also a nomination process. While only more seasoned contributors are featured this way, it is definitely a motivation for newcomers to contribute more. Whenever there is a community gathering, we also try to create video interviews. Indian community interviews - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs-r163EeuFFPIhJHorSttw/videos?sort=dd&… Tamil community interviews - https://www.youtube.com/user/TamilWikimedia/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&a… These interviews then help us create mashups for social media promotion - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05PoBbwsZV0 Ravi