[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

[David Gerard]

On 3 November 2011 09:45, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Well,  no newbie will wake up and say: "I want to place references  in
> Wikipedia articles today" - they do because one of us asked them to do. And
> all (maybe not all but most of) us know the software, and don't cost more
> of  our time ask them to use it. In fact a message explaining how to use
> the software is far more simple than one explaining how to insert the
> {{cite web}} template (and I know because I already send both to newbies).


Wikipedia should be a more or less complete web application.
Suggesting people who've never edited before download software first
strikes me as an effective way to reduce the new user pool
drastically.


- d.