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Moin,
On Friday 09 December 2005 20:05, David Gerard wrote:
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
Right. It's not perfect. Just better. At
least if someone is lazy
and doesn't attribute something and then someone else catches them,
it can be fixed.
If we added a "references" field to the edit page, even if it was
optional, the number of attributions would probably increase even
more. The field would be unformatted, so someone could of course
type "I just knew it" or "copied from some website" or even
"poop"
for their reference, but it'd be one more thing to look into if
someone put their reference as "Wikipedia".
I put forward an idea a while ago which people weren't too keen on, but
I think it's time for it to be presented again: when a new article is
created, prefill it with text. e.g.
[snipa bit]
- From my experience with people very new to wikis, I also set up a new link
in the menu ala "Create new article". When clicked it asks about the
title, and then bounces them back to the wiki, the edit box open and a
text similar to yours already filled in.
People view this as _much_ easier than mucking about with the URL, putting
a link in somewhere else, and/or starting with an empty edit box.
The most FAQ was "How do I start a new article?" followed by "And why is
this so complicated?", closely followed by "How do I add a headline
again?"
Especially in-frequent contributors tend to forget these things very quick
and since the computer should help the humans and not vice versa, I
finally patched my local Mediawiki installation to fix this issue.
Everyone's been happy since :)
Best wishes,
Tels
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