My thought exactly.
Fred
On Feb 18, 2006, at 8:27 AM, Matt Brown wrote:
My concern is that newbies don't stay new, and that this whole thing - both the userboxes and the war against them - is not going to give them a great start.
I think to a degree Wikipedia has reached that stage Usenet did, where suddenly the influx of new people is beyond the rate at which they tend to acclimate to the older culture. There are so many newbies that a newbie-culture can develop without having to join the existing one.
My thoughts: move all userboxes to user: space, so that they are obviously not official and not part of the encyclopedia project proper. Then ignore them except for awful examples.
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