[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

[Marco Chiesa]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Béria Lima <berialima at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cite4wiki/ (in wiki:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Cite4Wiki )
>
> right click and paste in the article. Easier than that can't be ;)

There are a lot of tools available to make the life of a Wiki editor
simple. The problem is that by the time you come into them, you have
already learned how to do things, where to find templates. I think we
need to develop a kind of wizard similar to the one used in Commons.
For example something like:
*What is the article about? with specific instructions for some of the
commonest categories (biographies, films, geographic places
*Write the text
*Wikify it
*Add references. Is it a book? A website? The templates are
straightforward to fill but difficult to find
*Preview and proofread
*Save it

Cruccone