On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:00 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Sue Gardner wrote: >> I spent some time this weekend on New User Contributions on the >> English Wikipedia, reading the talk pages of new people who'd been >> trying to make constructive edits. I was trying to imagine the world >> through their eyes --- what their early experiences felt like. Some >> had welcome templates and some didn't, and many also had templates >> added that were probably intimidating for new people (warnings and >> corrections of various kinds, mostly). > > You should try gaining the other perspective: thousands of edits each hour > from people all over the world, a decent-sized percentage of which are > purely malicious and another decent-sized percentage of which are completely > clueless.
On English. On some African language wikis, a single edit can be a cause for celebration[1] I think it's important to remember as we chat on Foundation-l that "Wikipedia" is not a single monolithic entity. :-) Also, since not many people seem to want to clutter up the thread with answers to my welcome message question, I posted it on my blog instead; comments welcome. http://www.phoebeayers.info/phlog/?p=2009 -- phoebe 1. http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/?p=802 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
