> Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum. Perhaps I'm obsessing a bit, but clearly Signpost would at least run an article about the increase of new users after the news. I would assume you would be on Wikipedia longer, though, so yeah.
> These are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so > there's certainly more. True, true. Emily On Aug 26, 2009, at 9:16 PM, kgnp...@gmail.com wrote: > Can't do anything but help as possible, from whatever forum. These > are the folks interested enough to click contact us, so there's > certainly more. > > -- Sent from my Palm Pre > Emily Monroe wrote: > >> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to > >> tell people to please not be BITE-y? > > > > *pixie dust pixie dust* ;-D > > > >> We don't want a large influx of editors arriving to help after > >> reading about things in the news, only to run into someone > >> unfriendly or rules-bound. > > > > I agree. Maybe have a Signpost-like note to everyone subscribed to > > Signpost? Maybe have that actually in the Signpost? Something like > > "Editors note: There's an influx of newbies, so please be patient". > > How will that work? > > > > Emily > > On Aug 26, 2009, at 7:53 PM, Carcharoth wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:33 AM, > >> kgnp...@gmail.com<kgnp...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> For what it's worth, we are getting a good amout of email asking > >>> about how to help the project because of the BBC and NYT. Here's > >>> to that. > >> > >> Do we have a welcome mat rolled out and some magic pixie dust to tell > >> people to please not be BITE-y? No, seriously. We don't want a large > >> influx of editors arriving to help after reading about things in the > >> news, only to run into someone unfriendly or rules-bound. > >> > >> Carcharoth > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> WikiEN-l mailing list > >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WikiEN-l mailing list > > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
