[WikiEN-l] Newbie and not-so-newbie biting

[David Gerard]

2009/9/21 Surreptitiousness <surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com>:

> I'd really like some decent surveys conducted which let us
> know exactly what our users and readers want us to be, because without
> that, we're just blowing hot-air.


+1

Suggest this on the strategy wiki.


> We've lost the idea that our readers
> can let us know what is missing by starting new articles, because we
> enforce standards that don't reflect that given reader's concerns.


And don't even let them create the article they're looking for unless
they create a login and come back four days later.


- d.