The whole point of that page is that they are _interviewed_ and the stories are published if they _want_ it. If they are uncomfortable with the attention, no story is published.
I thank all the people who say that they like the idea :)
My original intention was to try to find similar pages and so I could add relevant interlanguage links, but if there's nothing similar at the moment, I can wait patiently.
If anybody wants to start such a page in their project, I'll be happy to make the connection with the people who run it in the Hebrew Wikipedia to share the experiences.
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
2016-01-21 10:17 GMT+02:00 Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com:
I'm sure there are plenty of people who would feel uncomfortable with that. So if something like that were to be done, people should certainly be asked first, and that only be done if they explicitly agree.
Still, I think a lot of others would feel like their efforts are being noticed and appreciated. So long as it's opt-in only, I think it's a great idea.
Several people have, from time to time, done "editor of the day" type things, but those usually only recognized people who'd already been around a while. One that specifically focuses on promising newer editors might work quite well and make people feel more welcome. On Jan 20, 2016 4:12 PM, "Risker" risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
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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