[Wikimedia-l] Let's report and learn from non-successes (more often)

[Jon Davies]

I am an audience! Thanks and it really makes some broader points.  We often
start from finding people who have a passion about a subject but don;t edit
yet. That at least solves the 'blank sheet of paper' fear. Liked the
discussion though.

On 4 July 2013 08:34, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks.
> The problem of the blog post is IMHO that it's unclear what audience it's
> directed to. The learnings and suggestions *might* be useful for some
> en.wiki WikiProjects, but en.wiki is obviously the least suitable wiki for
> such experiments. There are no learnings for other projects and I see no
> answer e.g. to questions I had for a similar fr.wiki banner a few weeks
> later. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Meta%**
> 3ARequests_for_help_from_a_**sysop_or_bureaucrat&diff=**
> 5337142&oldid=5337118<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Meta%3ARequests_for_help_from_a_sysop_or_bureaucrat&diff=5337142&oldid=5337118>
> >
> It will be for next time then. :)
>
> Nemo
>
> P.s.: It's not particularly surprising, I see that I had already predicted
> this failure. <https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/**index.php?title=Talk:**
> CentralNotice/Calendar&oldid=**5337147#Philippines_**
> recruitment_for_two_weeks<https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:CentralNotice/Calendar&oldid=5337147#Philippines_recruitment_for_two_weeks>
> >
>
>
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