Tels wrote:
- From my experience with people very new to wikis, I also set up a new link
in the menu ala "Create new article". When clicked it asks about the title, and then bounces them back to the wiki, the edit box open and a text similar to yours already filled in. People view this as _much_ easier than mucking about with the URL, putting a link in somewhere else, and/or starting with an empty edit box.
Yep!
The most FAQ was "How do I start a new article?" followed by "And why is this so complicated?", closely followed by "How do I add a headline again?"
That's specifically why I put how to make a section in that in the example ;-)
I did a radio interview on Wikipedia yesterday. I actually tried to lure casual editors to feel free to edit.
It'd be nice if anon contributors could start articles again. If regulars don't like getting a template, perhaps it could be on just for anon editors.
Especially in-frequent contributors tend to forget these things very quick and since the computer should help the humans and not vice versa, I finally patched my local Mediawiki installation to fix this issue. Everyone's been happy since :)
Please submit the patch! (Is there a bug for this yet?)
- d.