On 10/6/05, Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/6/05, Michael Turley michael.turley@gmail.com wrote:
Well, the amount of policy a person has to absorb to become socialized at Wikipedia IS stupefying. There's a lot to think about and remember when you just get started.
I never really noticed that. I was here for months before I read all that much of policy. There are quite a few I still haven't read and I've been an admin since June.
If you have some basic common sense, and access to a trusted peer group (i.e. Kat, who *has* read all of the policy and is easy to talk to on IRC...) who also has common sense, you barely need to read the published policy.
I came here alone; I didn't have trusted peer group to guide me. Some people are more bold, some more cautious.
I wanted to make sure my edits were "proper" before committing them, after all, they are in the edit history FOREVER ;-), so I did more than an afternoon's worth of reading before my first logged-in post. My initial thoughts were "What would be worse for establishing your reputation than having a crappy first edit?" Yet I still neglected to use an edit summary! Doh!
-- Michael Turley User:Unfocused