On Nov 6, 2007 6:07 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
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.
It would be really really really helpful to see some links to incidents. Many times these complaints come without citation. I don't disbelieve them, but there are many types and causes of these results and they have vastly different cures.
It's not enough to simply say "be nicer!". Some times we need to say different things like "New users haven't learned our customs, that doesn't mean they are all jerks!"