[WikiEN-l] Potential Wikipedian growing pains

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Wed Sep 21 09:15:06 UTC 2005


Andrew Lih wrote:

>I used to tell folks writing for wiki was easy, and the inclusiveness
>of it has to do with not being like a database or data entry system.
>That has changed with templating now being extensively used around the
>Wikimedia projects.


Nowadays I pretty much tell new contributors "just write a few
paragraphs and INCLUDE REFERENCES and don't worry about the fancy
markup for now. Just INCLUDE THE REFERENCES and people will know it's
a real article about a real thing."

(references++)


- d.



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