[Foundation-l] Editor retention (was "Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!")

[En Pine]

>>On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 22:01, En Pine <deyntestiss at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> think that we should move in the opposite direction, permitting and 
>> possibly
>> even encouraging people to be social (within reasonable limits) while
>> working collaboratively on our collective project of Wikipedia.
>
>I agree. When I was a new editor I got into a friendly chat with an
>established Wikipedian. We exchanged a few light-hearted pleasantries
>and it did a lot to make me feel welcome in my new environment.
>
>I don't think we should be asking that people keep their talk pages
>"on topic" as it were. Indeed I had no idea that we do.
>
>Bodnotbod

I've made an RFC on-wiki.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:What_Wikipedia_is_not#Proposal_on_.22Wikipedia_is_Not_a_Social_Network.22

Comments, for and against, are welcome there.

Thanks,

Pine