Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)gmail.com> wrote: On 09/12/05, David Gerard wrote:
While this would just be wikitext, and any experienced
Wikipedia regular
could of course format an article how they liked, new editors would be
presented clearly with what we expect from a new article.
With this in place, I think we could even allow anons to create articles
again on en:. They certainly wouldn't just put "so what do you want me
to type?"
Another benefit: stick in [[Category:New articles]] as prefilled text
at the bottom. We end up with a cleanup category, where articles will
go until someone hacks them about a bit and (eg) categorises them. A
nice corrolary to Newpages, in that you can see an experienced editor
*hasn't* been at the page yet...
It's worth a shot.
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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Writing from the peanut gallery, I think this is a great idea, it plants the seed in new
editors heads that those components are an intergral part of a well formatted article.
Where does it go from here?