[WikiEN-l] What can be done to let users fix it themselves?

[Steve Bennett]

On 4/4/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> Letting people fix it themselves, though, has one advantage: it's removed
> *immediately*, not when some volunteer gets around to it.  Moreover, figuring

I think we act pretty quickly in those cases.

> out who to complain to is itself something that newcomers may find difficult
> to do.
>
> It's stupid to tell people "you can edit anything in Wikipedia except the
> one thing which is affecting your life.  You must figure out the proper
> bureaucratic procedure to use and go through that instead."

That's a separate issue. I've argued before for the creation of a
simple, user-friendly GUI which directs users through the reporting of
problems. We do need to make it much easier.

Steve