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> Fra: John Vandenberg
> Til: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
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> Dato: Fre, 25. feb 2011 04:01
> Emne: Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An
> Essay)
>
>
> The systems are designed so that the cliche '15 year old
> admin-want-a-be' is
Дана Friday 25 February 2011 13:18:36 dex2...@pc.dk написа:
> clean-up? Should we have a special "welcoming" staff instead of random
> people or bots inserting {{welcome}}?
To my knowledge, no one has ever tried it, but why not? In reality, some
people don't do what they know to do, but choose to
Dear Wikimedia community and friends:
I am very pleased to present the summary report of the Wikimedia
Foundation's five-year strategic plan: our first-ever such plan,
developed through a transparent collaborative process involving more
than a thousand participants during 2009 and 2010.
The st
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ting Chen wrote:
> Dear Wikimedia community and friends:
>
> I am very pleased to present the summary report of the Wikimedia
> Foundation's five-year strategic plan: our first-ever such plan,
> developed through a transparent collaborative process involving more
Hi Birgitte,
thank you for finding that link. I know it has been discussed, but was not
able to find the discussions.
The main reason why I asked for the reasoning behind the policy was not so
much because I was shocked (I was surprised by their choosing of
communications etc, not so much by the
Here's a recent email I received from Answers.com after editing an
answer there. Talk about friendly! Compared to this, we make the IRS
look friendly.
Hey Kaldari,
Someone's been busy lately! Don't think your contributions go
unnoticed... your tireless efforts are helping thousands of ind
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Nikola Smolenski wrote:
> Дана Friday 25 February 2011 13:18:36 dex2...@pc.dk написа:
>> clean-up? Should we have a special "welcoming" staff instead of random
>> people or bots inserting {{welcome}}?
>
> To my knowledge, no one has ever tried it, but why not?
On
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:18 PM, wrote:
>..
> This is certainly part of the problem. I would point also to the
> overwhelming amount of policies (and their corresponding abbreviations,
> WP:NOT etc. etc.) and procedures as being practically impossible to cope
> with for newbies.
>
> Question is,
Yes, the larger wikis need to become WikiProject-centric. First step in
doing this would be to create a WikiProject namespace. Second step would
be to make WikiProject article tagging/assessment part of the software
instead of template-based.
Ryan Kaldari
On 2/25/11 3:11 PM, John Vandenberg wr
>>> Should we have a special "welcoming" staff instead of random
>>> people or bots inserting {{welcome}}?
>>
>> To my knowledge, no one has ever tried it, but why not?
>
> On English Wikipedia there is a
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Welcoming_committee
>
> --
> John Vandenberg
"It
Was: Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness (was: Missing Wikipedians: An Essay)
Was: Re: [Foundation-l] Friendliness
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> On 2/25/11 3:11 PM, John Vandenberg wrote:
>> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:18 PM, wrote:
>>> ..
>>> I think it could also be consi
On 25 February 2011 03:01, John Vandenberg wrote:
> English Wikipedia is now sufficiently well known and culturally
> important, that 'we' no longer need to care about new contributors.
> Even if only 1% of new contributors work their way past the rejections
> and through our maze of rules, we wi
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Renata St wrote:
>...
> Then one day I stumbled upon Distributed Proofreaders (
> http://www.pgdp.net/c/) and proofread a few pages. I couple days later I
> received *three* *personalized* welcoming messages & evaluations "this is
> what you got right, this is what
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Ryan Kaldari wrote:
> Yes, the larger wikis need to become WikiProject-centric. First step in
> doing this would be to create a WikiProject namespace. Second step would
> be to make WikiProject article tagging/assessment part of the software
> instead of template-b
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