On 22 February 2011 21:38, Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> +1 :-) > 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). People see these templates and assume they're bot-created and nothing to do with humans. Which is pretty close, considering many are placed on pages using automated tools. The wording on almost all needs severe culling. [[m:Instruction creep]] was written in 2004 and remains largely unheeded in practice. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Instruction_creep - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l