[WikiEN-l] New mailing list for newbies?

Sun Sep 4 19:38:10 UTC 2005

On 8/8/05, jjleahy at umich.edu <jjleahy at umich.edu> wrote:

> This mailing list often serves the purpose of allowing "old timers" to discuss
> Wikipedia policy, but it gets its share of newbies asking things like
> requesting article changes (which if they knew what Wikipedia was they could do
> themselves).  [...]
> One idea is to make a new mailing list specifically for newcomers to Wikipedia,
> which would be manned by a group of people that respond to newcomers and lead
> them places where they could learn more

Since this is a great idea and there were no objections to it over the
last month, Jeronim has created this list. It is called helpdesk-l

I would like to encourage anyone interested in helping newbies to join
this list and answer questions there. You can subscribe at
http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l

If anyone would like to be the list admin, please let me know.

Angela.