[WikiEN-l] Edit Wikipedia Week is coming. How not to bite the n00bs?

[joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu]

RC-patrol seems to have the most biting as far as I can tell. I'd suggest
possibly altering the RC top to make a note for the 24 hours or so 
prior to the
week starting asking people not to bite.

Quoting David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week
>
> This is happening.
>
> A perennial press story is "I was bitten as a n00b on Wikipedia" -
> every random interaction with a random en:wp editor is taken as
> representative and officially sanctioned.
>
> So we need people to be on extra special good behaviour.
>
> (For those about to point out to Mr Pot that he is of similar
> blackness to Messrs Kettle, Jimbo emailed me directly asking me to
> please be much nicer on wikien-l in particular. And I can't say it
> wasn't deserved. *cough*)
>
> Main sticking point I can see is notoriously prickly individuals who
> are also notoriously good encyclopedia writers. I won't go so far as
> to name any of those who spring to my mind, but I'm sure you have your
> own list. If they can be convinced this is a good idea then they
> should provide a suitably shocking example of niceness.
>
> Also, have to hit the village pump, the admin boards etc. Those who do
> lots of janitorial work cleaning out the sewers of en:wp
> (vandal-chasing, newpages patrolling, RC patrolling, etc) and
> basically see the bad side of people all the time need to be brought
> on board as well. This is somewhere n00bs can really be bitten.
>
> Ideas please? I suspect not doing this is not an option.
>
>
> - d.
>
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