[WikiEN-l] Re: Mentoring system (was: Some Restrictions May Apply)

[Anthere]

Timwi wrote:
> Christopher Mahan wrote:
> 
>> --- Rowan Collins 
>> <rowan.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> We already have it: Edit the User_talk page of a user, even one
>>> only
>>> known by an IP address; the message "You have new messages" will
>>> appear on their screen until they follow the link. It is indeed
>>> very
>>> encouraging as a new user (I must start doing it more myself...)
>>> :)
>>
>>
>> Well, i was thinking of putting the message itself. Few newbies will
>> click on "You have a new message" because that sounds like spam.
> 
> 
> Maybe not spam, but many adverts on the Internet say something like "You 
> have new messages" to get naïve people to click on them.
> 
> I generally quite like the idea, and I think it would have a lot of very 
> useful and productive uses. However, I would very much like to see a 
> "message log" - maybe something like [[User:Timwi/Received messages]] 
> and [[User:Timwi/Sent messages]]. Of course, those should be 
> wiki-editable, so the user can manually delete them or move them to an 
> archive page if they think it's getting too long.
> 
> Timwi

And what about "User:Timwi wrote you a message" instead of "You have new 
messages"

It removes anonymity, sounds less like spam and is more informative 
(requires probably a little tech tweak I suppose though :-))

ant