[Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart

[Fred Bauder]

> The big wikipedias would benefit in numerous areas by being
> project-driven to a much larger extent. Let a newcomer join one or more
> projects instead of the huge Wikipedia - let the project welcome her,
> discuss what contributions she wants to make and what she is able to do,
> hand out tasks that are unfinished etc.Think it over once again.
>
> Regards,
> Sir48/Thyge

It doesn't work. Even now, if you show up on some projects, create a new
category, write a few new articles, you have to claw your way through
nominations for deletion and a blizzard of nonsense from regulars, based
on being "new". Not that I can't do it, but it is just wasted energy.

Fred