On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 2:49 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: > Дана Sunday 10 April 2011 06:36:22 MZMcBride написа: >> featured article requirements or anything like that. They might be >> inundated with too many links in welcome messages (which I view as a >> largely separate issue from policy creep), but I don't think the vast >> majority of editors pay any mind to the details of policies and pages that >> even established users can't be bothered to keep up with. This is what some >> argue is the actual meaning behind "ignore all rules." :-) > > I too loathe the wall of text displayed to new users and believe it is highly > ineffective. Some possible solutions I thought of are: > > Perhaps each newbie could get a short welcome message from "their" experienced > Wikipedian who will later mentor them with specific errors the newbie made. > > Perhaps it would be helpful if, when creating a new account, a user could > write a short message about what would they like to do on Wikipedia (this > would become their user page). It would give us an idea on what part of > guidelines to present to the new user, and also very needed insight on why do > people just create account and leave.
This is the best actually-practical idea I've seen in a long, long time! ++to making user page info for new accounts a simple box to fill in at registration Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
