[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

[Mateus Nobre]

The learning of the new editors have to be more instinctive and less 
bureaucratic. Seriously, who here, at the first time editing Wikipedia, read 
the policy BEFORE editing a lot? None. Everyone just reads the rules a long 
time after the beggining of Wikipedian life.

I think a system like used in Commons too, but now about editing Wikipedia. 
Could be used for IPs and accounts with less than 100 editions, for example, 
and concealable, of course.
A system whick teach to newbies about the syntax  ( that's the most 
complicated thin to teach newbies: [[ ]], {{ }} and of course,
<Ref>{{cite web |url= |title= |author= |date= |work= |publisher= 
|accessdate= }}</ref>)

It has to be discussed. It would be a important system, essential nowadays.


-----Mensagem Original----- 
From: Marco Chiesa
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2011 6:02 AM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ (in wiki:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki )
>
> right click and paste in the article. Easier than that can't be ;)

There are a lot of tools available to make the life of a Wiki editor
simple. The problem is that by the time you come into them, you have
already learned how to do things, where to find templates. I think we
need to develop a kind of wizard similar to the one used in Commons.
For example something like:
*What is the article about? with specific instructions for some of the
commonest categories (biographies, films, geographic places
*Write the text
*Wikify it
*Add references. Is it a book? A website? The templates are
straightforward to fill but difficult to find
*Preview and proofread
*Save it

Cruccone

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