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

[Emily Monroe]

> I can
> see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic
> orientation.

I see that too on new page patrol. I'll, through twinkle, put a  
"you're article might be speedily deleted" temp on somebody's talk  
page, and it'll be the first thing that they get on their talk page.

Emily
On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:

>> 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
>
>
>
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