I don't know of any good
way in which to guide newcomers towards that direction, though,
especially in a "come-and-go"-type environment such as this.
When I came to Wikipedia, .. years back then.. I really liked the idea of
stubs being sorted by the field of interest. I liked it and started to sort
them and sort them in finer categories and such. In the end it does not look
like success, like that it would help in any way.
But I would like to see some more invitation on those stubs like:
This article about plant biology is stub. You can help Wikipedia by
expanding it.
*Or you can inspect and expand any other stubs about plant biology [linked
here to the category:Plant biology stubs]
Basically : invite the reader/editor into the particular category of topical
stubs from the article.
Petr [[u.Reo_On]]
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:55 AM, MuZemike <muzemike(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I don't think that is entirely reasonable thing to
say or do, but, on
the other hand, I wished that newcomers would be aware that creating new
articles from scratch is not the only way to help contribute to the
encyclopedia. Assuming that Wikipedia is still nowhere close to being
complete, there are always going to be opportunities to expand existing
articles - many of them that are still stubs. I don't know of any good
way in which to guide newcomers towards that direction, though,
especially in a "come-and-go"-type environment such as this.
-MuZemike
On 10/10/2011 7:08 PM, Tony Sidaway wrote:
The only important rule here is to be bold. We
really ought to take more
steps to disenfranchise those who repeatedly stamp on attempts to create
new
content. They know who they are, and I mean it.
We should stop them hard.
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