The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable to vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every page under "Interaction", so it's pretty prominently placed. Lots of interesting things to do listed there, many that look like a lot of fun. Fred

That's a good idea if anybody actually reads the welcome message. I'm not saying this sarcastically--I didn't read mine. Emily >> >> Is there any way to better advertise the community portal, so those >> who are >> new to wikipedia can more easily find it? It'll be more easily >> vandalized >> this way, but I think any such thing will be swiftly reverted. > > > > AGK > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

Maybe create some sort of software that tells us how many links are clicked? Emily On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Carcharoth wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean(a)me.com> > wrote: >>> A link to the community portal could be included in more of >>> Wikipedia's new user welcome messages. >> >> That's a good idea if anybody actually reads the welcome message. I'm >> not saying this sarcastically--I didn't read mine. > > > Carcharoth > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

We may have a skin or two that could be improved in this regard. If you find a problem you will need to communicate with the developers. They have a mailing list Wikitech-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l Fred

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote: Maybe "free drinks"? :-) To be fair, I discovered the community portal early on. However, I didn't use it much then, and still don't use it much now. It does point the way to some interesting places, though. Carcharoth

Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the "game" itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very paternalistic, but constantly processing unblock requests, as I do, I can see that much of the trouble people get into is due to a lack of basic orientation. Fred Bauder

I see that too on new page patrol. I'll, through twinkle, put a "you're article might be speedily deleted" temp on somebody's talk page, and it'll be the first thing that they get on their talk page. Emily On Jun 25, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Fred Bauder wrote: >> 2009/6/25 Carcharoth <carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com>om>: >>> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Steve Bennett >>> <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Fred Bauder<fredbaud(a)fairpoint.net >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>>> The Community Portal is semi-protected, so its not that vulnerable >>>> to >>>>> vandalism. On the skin I'm using it is in the sidebar on every >>>>> page >>>> under >>>>> "Interaction", so it's pretty prominently placed. >>>> >>>> No way. I was over 5000 edits before I even noticed it for the >>>> first >>>> time. And pfft, "community portal" - what an inviting link to click >>>> on! >>> >>> Maybe "free drinks"? :-) >>> >>> To be fair, I discovered the community portal early on. However, I >>> didn't use it much then, and still don't use it much now. It does >>> point the way to some interesting places, though. >> >> I don't use it much either and I didn't in the beginning. It's not >> very visible to me using the Monobook skin and I only glance at it >> once or twice when I'm browsing, nothing more than that really unless >> I want to seek something out and find other things available. >> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Isabell Long > > Well, we could, as is done in online games, create a little school for > people to go through and learn the ropes before we let them into the > "game" itself. Not sure how we would set that up, certainly very > paternalistic, but constantly processing unblock requests, as I do, > > Fred Bauder > > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote: It bears mentioning that monobook and its various tweaks took maybe a week to deal with, and it took maybe another three days for people to agree to make the upgrade and then implement it. Now, apparently we are conducting "usability studies" that may or may not be related to actually getting some CSS written. -Stevertigo