Hello, I don't know what happened to my email. I had sent the email to the list on Oct 14, 2019. But it reached the list only on Oct 28, 2019. As many have suggested as reply to the email, I have already written in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedia Village Pumps, after sending the email.
Regards, Dhanalakshmi K T On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 8:00 PM pavan santhosh <pavansanthos...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello Asaf, > > Nice to hear from you. Thanks for making things clear. Kudos to your point > on balancing between quality of content and welcoming new Wikipedians. I > don't think that they are contradicting tasks. In long run, developing an > environment where experienced editors will step in and help newbies > understand how to contribute quality content that sticks to the core > content policies is, ideally, something that we need to work on. Hope we > will find another platform/thread to discuss such steps. > > Bye for now. > > Thanks & Regards, > Pavan. > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:45 PM Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > > More explicitly: Wikipedia communities are self-governing. This means > > this mailing list has no particular ability to regulate behavior on the > > Kannada or Tulu Wikipedias. It is to your fellow community members on > > those wikis that you should complain about the newbie-biter's behavior. > > Those communities should step up and stop the newbie-biting if they are > > interested in welcoming newcomers and seeing their community grow. > > > > (Remind people -- on-wiki -- that avoiding newbie-biting *does not* equal > > compromising on quality; it's just a better attitude to showing newcomers > > their mistakes or where (and how!) an article can be improved.) > > > > Cheers, > > > > A. > > > > On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:31 AM pavan santhosh < > pavansanthos...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> Hey Dhanalakshmi KT, > >> > >> This is worth discussing in WP:Village pump as Ashwin sir suggested. I > >> believe discussions in Tulu and Kannada Wikipedia helps to resolve issue > >> better. > >> > >> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 5:45 PM Dhanalakshmi K. T. < > lakshmik...@gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi all, > >>> > >>> We are all aware of Newbie biting. One editor by User name Lokesha > >>> kunchadka > >>> < > https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF:Lokesha_kunchadka> > who > >>> is indulging in Newbie biting in Kannada and Tulu Wikipedias from > almost > >>> last 2-3 months. He was issued a warning by the admin in Kannada > Wikipedia, > >>> link is here > >>> < > https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%A6%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%AF%E0%B2%B0_%E0%B2%9A%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9A%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%81%E0%B2%9F:Lokesha_kunchadka#Newbie_biting > > > >>> . > >>> > >>> I have been conducting Diversity Editathons from last 3 months. One of > >>> the major aims of these editathons is to bring more women editors. > Before > >>> the new editor completes the article this person jumps in and adds > >>> templates to imply the article is not of good quality. The new editors, > >>> especially the women editors, are scared to continue editing because of > >>> this newbie biting. Apart from this I had written an article on 13th > >>> October 2019 with the template Under constriction for which he > commented > >>> saying there is no such topic. I was planning to complete the article > with > >>> reference to the title today. > >>> > >>> I would like to hear suggestions from experienced people on how do deal > >>> with this kind of situation. > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> Dhanalakshmi K T > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > >>> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >>> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Pavan Santhosh. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > >> Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >> > > > > > > -- > > Asaf Bartov > > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > > https://donate.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > -- > Pavan Santhosh. > _______________________________________________ > Wikikn-l mailing list > wikik...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikikn-l >
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