We should all know about this and promote it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee%27s_Area/Adopter...
(forgive the belated response)
Indeed, this is important and useful.
I usually make it a point to mention this in general outreach talks, especially if anyone in the audience (as is often the case) has had past experience trying to edit Wikipedia and getting reverted, confused, or abused.
Cheers,
Asaf
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 2:54 AM, David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.comwrote:
We should all know about this and promote it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee%27s_Area/Adopter...
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It is a good idea, as the 'adoptee' could perhaps call on his mentor if he 'got in trouble'. I have seen countless incidents of old editors who seem to feel some form of 'ownership' of certain pages merely reverting because someone saw something which they had not seen before and they feel slighted.
I hasten to add that it varies from language to language, Portuguese the worst offender in my opinion. Therefore, it is a question of the culture that evolves among contributors and it is thus something that we can influnce by nipping in the bud in growing the Wikipedia in the various national languages.
Regards,
Rui
On 15 January 2012 12:54, David Richfield davidrichfield@gmail.com wrote:
We should all know about this and promote it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Adopt-a-user/Adoptee%27s_Area/Adopter...
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