On 8/8/05, jjleahy(a)umich.edu <jjleahy(a)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.