It is indeed one of my favorite community ideas on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Some of you have heard me pitch it at conferences. Let me add a couple of notes:
It is an excellent and popular way to *celebrate* (not just describe) good-faith new contributors. The way it works is a couple of volunteers who run the page look for a relatively new contributor who seems to have successfully integrated on-wiki, and has made more than a handful of good contributions, and they approach the new contributor with a request for an interview and a description of this page. Those new contributors who are interested are interviewed and featured on the page.
A fun additional feature of the page, is that alongside the one or two featured new contributors, there is a sidebar where some *veteran* contributor offers an appreciation of some other contributor. This page updates only once a month, and it's great to have these occasional reminders of appreciation among the old-timers too.
Cheers,
A.
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 6:29 AM, Szymon Grabarczuk <tar.locesilion@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks Amir, this is inspiring :) by this, I mean, there's no such page in Polish projects.
As of enwiki, and in general, first of all, an interview sounds much better to me than 'fill a template and become a part of this depersonalised crowd below'. Second, traffic must be taken into account. I hope it's obvious a page doesn't fulfil its function should isn't highly linked or read with a permanent high frequency. Therefore, designing a page isn't such an issue as much as providing traffic and good UX.
On 20 January 2016 at 09:00, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
The Teahouse on English Wikipedia has a guest profile page ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests), although it's low traffic http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Guests I
like
the idea of a higher profile way to welcome newcomers to the community. Perhaps newcomers could be interviewed periodically in the Signpost.
Pine
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:30 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
In the Hebrew Wikipedia there's a page [1] that highlights editors who recently became active - shows a short interview with them and welcomes them to the community in a nice way.
It's not so much a help and a support page like English Wikipedia, but
more
like a newsletter or a blog that describes newcomers, in a form of an regularly updating wiki page.
Is there anything like that in other projects and languages? (Not necessarily Wikipedia, of course.)
Thanks!
[1] https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:BIK
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