[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: [Wikimedia-l] Edit #1 and Challenge #1

Hope we can send some experiences from India. Lila's the incoming executive director at WMF, in case some have missed that announcement. Best Bishakha ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Lila Tretikov" &lt;lila(a)wikimedia.org&gt; Date: May 29, 2014 1:55 PM Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Edit #1 and Challenge #1 To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" &lt;wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org&gt; I wanted to share my first editing experience and ask for your help. Here it is: Today I have made the first edit on English Wikipedia. As I said in my first meeting -- I believe in traveling the path of our editors, so I can better understand them and so taht we can make their experience more natural. I have edited in private wikis before and I have edited the talk pages. I used the Visual Editor, even though I am well-versed in the syntax. I had the advantage of a very very experienced user by my side and it went pretty smooth -- so this report is not entirely fair. Even though, I did stumble in a few places, however, and this is a learning experience for me and for our team. Overall I wish I had this on video. It is a bit like an experience of a kid making their first goal. Exhilarating. So now I have a challenge back to you: - Please pick a friend who has never edited before. - Ask them to make an edit. Any edit in any language. - Please have them write one paragraph about their experience. - Have them send it to lila at wikimedia with the subject: #1 Thank you!!! Lila _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>