[WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)

[Fred Bauder]

> 2009/6/25 Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>:
>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauder<fredbaud at fairpoint.net>
>>> wrote:
>>> > The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable
>>> to
>>> > vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page
>>> under
>>> > "Interaction", so it's pretty prominently placed.
>>>
>>> No way. I was over 5000 edits before I even noticed it for the first
>>> time. And pfft, "community portal" - what an inviting link to click
>>> on!
>>
>> Maybe "free drinks"? :-)
>>
>> To be fair, I discovered the community portal early on. However, I
>> didn't use it much then, and still don't use it much now. It does
>> point the way to some interesting places, though.
>
> I don't use it much either and I didn't in the beginning.  It's not
> very visible to me using the Monobook skin and I only glance at it
> once or twice when I'm browsing, nothing more than that really unless
> I want to seek something out and find other things available.
>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Isabell Long

Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for
people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the
"game" itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very
paternalistic, but constantly processing unblock requests, as I do, I can
see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic
orientation.

Fred Bauder