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

[Carcharoth]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at fairpoint.net> wrote:

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> 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.

I always thought this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction

...which leads people into this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial

...was and is an excellent introduction.

However, many (most?) people don't read the manual.

Carcharoth