This is very good data in the "how friendly are we to newbies" question.
Thanks for running the test.
Please send another update in a couple of more days at least, I am too
busy to follow on-wiki but I want to see more of the results of this.
-george
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Gwern Branwen <gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:55 PM, WereSpielChequers
<werespielchequers(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Apologies for reviving a thread from three weeks
ago. But the idea
that we had degenerated into a newbie biting place where one could
"challenge a newbie to create an article on Wikipedia and have that
article exist for an entire week. Guaranteed, your article will be
marked for “speedy deletion” within about two minutes of its
creation." bugged me, so I thought I'd unscientifically test it.
I made a suggestion at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/new_users#Lets_…
Nobody including myself knows how many articles have so far been
created as part of the test, and yes one has already been deleted
under the novel speedy deletion criteria of "the wikilinks did not
have the proper markup".
But there are at least two other articles that have survived more than 24 hours.
Anyone else who is interested in following the test is welcome to
watch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WereSpielChequers/Newbie_treatment
Two articles at least should be unveiled in the next few days.
WereSpielChequers
I particularly enjoyed WilliKing's comment:
My bad...I sincerely apologize. If I knew about
the "challenge", I would have kept the article. It did have, though, words
without proper wikilinks. Willking1979 (talk) 02:32, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I sympathize with him entirely; if I had known about the cop around
the corner, I wouldn't've casually shoved that woman off cliff. In my
defense, though, she was ugly.
--
gwern
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