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

[Alex Sawczynec]

Don't forget Newpages. There's a fair share of people creating nonsense
pages, of course, but if a good-faith editor trying to create an article
doesn't include a slew of references within the first thirty seconds, it's
got just as good a chance of being deleted.

On 11/6/07, joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu <joshua.zelinsky at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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