[Foundation-l] Priorities

[Ray Saintonge]

Matthew Britton wrote:
> --- Florence Devouard <anthere at anthere.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> We are more numerous, more protective to our 
>> featured-content, less welcoming to our newbies (for
>> technical or social 
>> reasons).
>> How many experts have been driven away by the agressivity
>> of some of our 
>> members ? How many new editors just were discouraged by
>> the difficulty 
>> of editing a table or a template ? How many newbies were
>> blocked because 
>> they just did not understood quickly enough how to use a
>> talk page ?
>> Also, during the year, several cases of online or offline
>> harassment of 
>> contributors were reported. Harassement which came as a
>> result of their 
>> contributions to our projects.
>>     
>
> Absolutely.
>
> Having tried editing anonymously for a few weeks myself, I
> can assure you our treatment of newcomers - even those that
> understand things from a technical perspective - leaves
> much to be desired.
>   
This has become one of our biggest problems.
> I'd also like to add another question to your list, if I
> may. How many experienced editors with thousands of edits
> and no user conduct issues have been forced to stop
> contributing after they were found to be editing via
> proxies and issued with a de facto ban by administrators
> enforcing a policy for policy's sake? While the number may
> be small, the loss from each is significant.
If we are to focus on the real problems this may just be one small piece 
of the puzzle.  The proportion of editors who understand anything 
relating to proxies may be very tiny.  A broader approach may catch 
these anyways.

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