[WikiEN-l] WelcomeCommitteeBot?

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

If the newbies try to reply on their own talk page, we should include a
"please click here to reply" link to avoid that.

On 2/18/07, xaosflux <xaosflux at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> These usually get rejected over at [[WP:RFBOT]].  The last one rejected I
> can find is [[Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/Welcomebot]], with the
> reasonable basis that it was being proposed by an operator that was indef
> blocked.
>
> Some of the issues that come up with this perenial proposal are:
> *Dealing with dynamic IP addresses when welcoming anons and
> *Being "personal", the idea below about putting  a random (rotating)
> contact
> on the message may address that, but without leaving specific instuctinos
> the new user may try to reply to "you the welcomer" by editing their own
> talk, and noone will be watching it.
>
> [[en:user:xaosflux]]
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Parker Peters" <parkerpeters1002 at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 3:01 AM
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] WelcomeCommitteeBot?
>
>
> > Has been suggested numerous times.
> >
> > Is a wonderful idea.
> >
> > Will probably be rejected yet again, for no reasonable basis.
> >
> > Parker
> >
> > On 2/16/07, A <jokestress at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Seeing the wide variety of welcome templates used and some recent
> >> interactions with new IP editors have me thinking about this as an
> >> option.
> >>
> >> The basics:
> >>
> >> 1. Would post a welcome message the first time an IP address or
> >> registered
> >> account is used to edit.
> >> 2. Would explain key policies.
> >> 3. Would encourage the IP editors to register a username.
> >> 4. Would indicate a place where any questions could be directed.
> >>
> >> This automated message would have a few benefits:
> >>
> >> 1. It would reach people immediately after they make their first edit.
> >> 2. It might help some editors avoid common issues with first edits:
> >> original
> >> research, copyright issues, POV, verifiability.
> >> 3. It might cut down on some of the other misunderstandings novice
> >> editors
> >> have.
> >>
> >> Interested editors could sign on when they are available to take
> >> questions
> >> from novices, or the new editors could be sent to a page where they
> could
> >> ask any questions and get a fairly quick response.
> >>
> >> If it seems it might be more personal, maybe the bot could randomly
> >> assign
> >> an experienced editor to each welcome message, someone signed up on the
> >> welcoming committee.
> >>
> >> It seems that this might cut down on much of the back and forth
> >> experienced
> >> editors have with new editors, and it might encourage more people to
> >> register. Sometimes editors get welcomed immediately, and other times
> it
> >> takes months.
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
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