Marie,
Thanks very much for this overview of your early experience as an editor.
Would you mind sending this email to the editor growth team so that they
can look at your experience for ideas about what they can improve? Their
email list is called Editor Engagement and you can find it on
Thanks Pine!
~ A.
On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:27 PM, Pine W
wiki.p...@gmail.commailto:wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Marie,
Thanks very much for this overview of your early experience as an editor. Would
you mind sending this email to the editor growth team so that they can look at
your experience
On 7/30/2014 5:51 AM, Marie Earley wrote:
Things that I think might help:
Help pages wise, I'm sure they'd love to see you at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Help
I know I wasted a couple years learning the hard way because the Help
pages didn't seem intuitive enough.
Nice idea in principle, but there are still two hurdles to be overcome
1. How do you get the cheatsheet to the new female editor? How do you
spot new female editors? By what mechanism do you communicate with them? Can
you assume they know about User Talk (my almost entirely unsuccessful
Nope and I get consistent messages on and off wiki from women saying cheat
sheets are poorly designed or people are too busy... But I don't think
surveys are being done about workshops and the guides they pass out (I
believe in throwing people into the pool to learn how to swim).
I Still stand by
Twice during my short discussion about how to start a civility board, which
turned into a long discussion about the word c*nt, an Admin gave the link
to the Commons search results for that word, saying that showed that the
text of the word isn't very offensive. WTF?!
On Jul 30, 2014 7:55 PM,
