[WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages

Mon Dec 5 20:28:08 UTC 2005

Martin Richards wrote:
> Thats not what I mean. If an anon wants to make a article, putting it on 
> that page won't be much help, as that is where people request that 
> someone else makes an article, we need a page where anons can say "I 
> want to write an article about foobar but I need someone to start it off 
> so I can actually make it".

You are correct.
I suggest we hire someone to start pages requested by anons.

Anthere

> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Martin" 
> <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com>
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 8:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: Experiment on new pages
> 
> 
>> On 12/5/05, Steve Block 
>> <steve.block at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Martin Richards wrote:
>>> > Should we have a page where anons can request a page be started?
>>> > Otherwise it might lead to some frustration.
>>>
>>> We do, [[Wikipedia:Requested articles]].  I would expect that a link
>>> will be included in whatever text shows up when an anon tries to create
>>> a page.
>>
>>
>> I've added links to [[Special:Userlogin]] and [[Wikipedia:Requested
>> articles]] to [[Mediawiki:Nocreatetext]].
>>
>> Kelly
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