[WikiEN-l] Potential Wikipedian growing pains

[David Gerard]

Andrew Lih wrote:

>I used to tell folks writing for wiki was easy, and the inclusiveness
>of it has to do with not being like a database or data entry system.
>That has changed with templating now being extensively used around the
>Wikimedia projects.


Nowadays I pretty much tell new contributors "just write a few
paragraphs and INCLUDE REFERENCES and don't worry about the fancy
markup for now. Just INCLUDE THE REFERENCES and people will know it's
a real article about a real thing."

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- d.