On 21 March 2012 22:32, Zack Exley <zex...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Today those kinds of communications happen much more rarely. My hunch is > that templates caused that. Now, we just leave template messages instead of > writing a personal note about a specific edit.
And it turns out the new editors often assume the templates are completely bot-generated. That is: the editors using templates are, literally, failing the Turing test. > I know the solution is not > to just stop using templates. I think it should be given serious consideration. I realise why Twinkle and Huggle exist, but they turn Wikipedia into a first-person shooter with the newbies as the targets. I suggest that this is not the sort of gamification that is useful. That said, anyone who's ever done Special:Newpages will deeply empathise with ax-crazy newpages patrollers, because Special:Newpages is a firehose of *shit*. How's the article wizard's output looking? - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
