On 10/6/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/6/05, Michael Turley
<michael.turley(a)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.
Kelly
By this she means that I've spent too much time burying my head in the
Wikipedia namespace and hanging around chattering instead of doing
anything useful. ;-)
I do think that the Simplified Ruleset should be enough policy for
anyone to jump in with, and that newbies should get a lot of leeway
for a while if they're genuinely trying to contribute well.
The peer group is useful. For all the criticism the IRC channel gets,
I've seen quite a few people talked out of poor decisions and helped
with procedures and understanding of them; the immediacy of responses
and the large numbers of people around does help, when there are
people around who will offer good advice. (When there aren't, well...
not so much.)
-Kat
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