On 22 March 2012 10:56, En Pine <deyntest...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Why would you not want to provide people guidance before they've made their > first edit, and why not provide them some encouragement to edit in a welcome > message?
Because in practice, new editors don't read them - they think the messages are just boilerplate for tl;dr. I urge you again to bother reading what's been posted to this list over the past 24 hours. - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l