[WikiEN-l] Accepting the challenge to create a new article as a newbie and see if it lasts 2 minutes - or 7 days

[George Herbert]

This is very good data in the "how friendly are we to newbies" question.

Thanks for running the test.

Please send another update in a couple of more days at least, I am too
busy to follow on-wiki but I want to see more of the results of this.


-george

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies for reviving a thread from three weeks ago. But the idea
>> that we had degenerated into a newbie biting place where one could
>> "challenge a newbie to create an article on Wikipedia and have that
>> article exist for an entire week. Guaranteed, your article will be
>> marked for “speedy deletion” within about two minutes of its
>> creation." bugged me, so I thought I'd unscientifically test it.
>>
>> I made a suggestion at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/new_users#Lets_all_create_an_extra_account
>>
>> Nobody including myself knows how many articles have so far been
>> created as part of the test, and yes one has already been deleted
>> under the novel speedy deletion criteria of "the wikilinks did not
>> have the proper markup".
>>
>> But there are at least two other articles that have survived more than 24 hours.
>>
>> Anyone else who is interested in following the test is welcome to
>> watch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
>>
>> Two articles at least should be unveiled in the next few days.
>>
>> WereSpielChequers
>
> I particularly enjoyed WilliKing's comment:
>
>> My bad...I sincerely apologize. If I knew about the "challenge", I would have kept the article. It did have, though, words without proper wikilinks. Willking1979 (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
>
> I sympathize with him entirely; if I had known about the cop around
> the corner, I wouldn't've casually shoved that woman off cliff. In my
> defense, though, she was ugly.
>
> --
> gwern
>
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-george william herbert
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