[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

Tue Nov 1 23:45:33 UTC 2011

On 1 November 2011 23:39, Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at live.co.uk> wrote:

> If the sources are so important to Wikipedia, this has to be easier to newbies.

The essential problem is that the Wikipedia community is newbie-hostile.

Not actively - mostly - but passively. They view newbies as trouble and work.

Hence all the pushes back against newbies - trying to further restrict
page creation and so forth, the problem with citations, defending the
impossible markup, open hostility on Special:Newpages ...

So how to make the other side of the newbie experience not suck for
the incumbents?

- d.