I think Wikipedia's logo is groovy, but it says nothing about the fact that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. That was my first thought. Then I looked at a page and imagined that I had just stumbled across it on the net, and had no idea what it was about. It is simply not immediately obvious that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia!
So, maybe what we could do is have a logo that says that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. At the same time we might adopt a slogan, something like "The user-created encyclopedia." Ideas?
Larry
Along these lines, I've been thinking of modifying the page so that there's a block of text (similar in look to the Nupedia attribution requirement) that says something short and to the point. "This is a User Created Encyclopedia. Click <a>here</a> to learn how to contribute."
When they click there, they get to some of our pages about how to contribute, how to make pages, etc.
Other ideas would be: "Wikipedia: The user created encyclopedia with 2,173 articles! Click <a>here</a> to learn how to contribute!"
Where the count is updated automatically from time to time.
Larry Sanger wrote:
I think Wikipedia's logo is groovy, but it says nothing about the fact that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. That was my first thought. Then I looked at a page and imagined that I had just stumbled across it on the net, and had no idea what it was about. It is simply not immediately obvious that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia!
So, maybe what we could do is have a logo that says that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia. At the same time we might adopt a slogan, something like "The user-created encyclopedia." Ideas?
Larry
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Along these lines, I've been thinking of modifying the page so that there's a block of text (similar in look to the Nupedia attribution requirement) that says something short and to the point. "This is a User Created Encyclopedia. Click <a>here</a> to learn how to contribute."
When they click there, they get to some of our pages about how to contribute, how to make pages, etc.
Other ideas would be: "Wikipedia: The user created encyclopedia with 2,173 articles! Click <a>here</a> to learn how to contribute!"
Where the count is updated automatically from time to time.
I think either of these would be an improvement. Probably the most suitable existing starter page is the one you wrote:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Welcome,_newcomers
It's now a general introduction, with links to other introductory material.
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