On 10/6/05, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/6/05, Michael Turley
<michael.turley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, the amount of policy a person has to absorb
to become socialized
at Wikipedia IS stupefying. There's a lot to think about and remember
when you just get started.
I never really noticed that. I was here for months before I read all
that much of policy. There are quite a few I still haven't read and
I've been an admin since June.
If you have some basic common sense, and access to a trusted peer
group (i.e. Kat, who *has* read all of the policy and is easy to talk
to on IRC...) who also has common sense, you barely need to read the
published policy.
I came here alone; I didn't have trusted peer group to guide me. Some
people are more bold, some more cautious.
I wanted to make sure my edits were "proper" before committing them,
after all, they are in the edit history FOREVER ;-), so I did more
than an afternoon's worth of reading before my first logged-in post.
My initial thoughts were "What would be worse for establishing your
reputation than having a crappy first edit?" Yet I still neglected to
use an edit summary! Doh!
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Michael Turley
User:Unfocused