I love the idea! It makes newcomers immediately feel welcomed and valuable for the community. Also it helps us to listen to them. I really hope that maybe we could start something similar on Polish Wikipedia.
Natalia Szafran-Kozakowska
2016-01-21 0:12 GMT+01:00 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
On 20 January 2016 at 17:51, Andy Mabbett andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk wrote:
On 20 January 2016 at 20:56, Asaf Bartov abartov@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
Sounds great. If en.WP do this as part of The Signpost, it would have a high level of reach, immediately. Same with Wikidata's weekly update.
Heh. I think back to when I first started editing. I would have been completely freaked out at that level of "notice" and would never have edited again.
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