בתאריך יום ג׳, 1 בינו׳ 2019, 07:37, מאת Paulo Santos Perneta < paulospern...@gmail.com>:
> Ahh, it would really be a fantastic improvement if we could get rid of all > that template & category clutter from the articles. [...] Let me tell a little > story: Some months ago I was in a workshop with a group of librarians, and > they were creating articles using VE. At some point all of them came under > a barrage of fire from resident wikipedians, bombing them with warnings > saying "you MUST add categories" I spent my first year or so on Wikipedia, editing and creating quite a lot without understanding how categories work. Those were the days... Other people, to who I'm deeply thankful, quietly fixed them after me. I later learned how to work with them myself. If my edits were deleted because I did not add categories, I'd possibly be away from this project. and pointing them to the oldfashioned > instructions on how to add them on wikicode, totally useless for newbies > using VE. This is another symptom: many of the help pages are hopelessly out of date. And the main reason for this is that they are too localized: they were initially created before we had better (but still not perfect) tools for global pages and translation. Now the veterans think they're good even though they rarely need them, and the newbies are just puzzled by them, and for the developers of new features it's too hard to manage help pages that are so dispersed across wikis and languages. It was the first time I was using VE myself in a more intensive > way, and while all of we were hastily trying to find where the heck > categories were hidden in VE, So here are a couple of things that you can do, and please tell everyone else to do them: use the VE more! It will very frequently save you time, and it will help you understand newbies better. If it's not good enough for you to use more, report bugs! The only ways to find bugs are to use it more yourself and to carefully observe other people using it (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2017-02-06/Op-ed and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6sS0M9TpYQ&t=27m28s ; note that the relevant part of the video begins at 27:28). And every time a newbie asks you how to do something, check whether the relevant help page in your wiki documents how to do it in VE, and if it doesn't, take a few minutes to add the info. None of these things will by themselves make a big strategic difference, but it will make the work smoother for a lot of people, at least in the short term. the librarians kept asking, puzzled - what > are those categories that seem to be of such a crucial importance to > wikipedians? Well, categories should actually be fairly easy for librarians to understand. If these librarians had a hard time with them, it doesn't mean that they are stupid, but that our categories system is badly broken. The sad fact is that 99% of those people that send those > useless warnings have not the least idea what categories are for, they > simply notice they are missing in a newly created article, and as they know > they are not supposed to be missing because they have been warned > themselves, they mimic the behavior perpetually Yes! Don't tolerate the perpetual mimicking of very old practices. Speak up and change stuff. Wikipedia should be a big club of people who like sharing knowledge, and not a small club of people who managed to learn wiki syntax. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
