[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Fri Jun 16 12:10:15 UTC 2006

On 6/16/06, Mark Gallagher <m.g.gallagher at student.canberra.edu.au> wrote:
>
>  From the famous Herostratus RfA: "There's no excuse to not use the
> warning templates for users vandalising, especially IP users."
>
> And the perpetrator of this idiotic statement is, according to his
> userpage, an RC patroller (although, blessedly, not apparently a member
> of CVU).
>
> Once we were worried about the newbie contingent getting so large that
> new users were in fact starting to consider themselves old hands and
> influencing Wikipedia (see: CVU admins, userbox fiasco).  It's gone
> beyond that, now: these days, the newbies are offering *advice* to more
> clueful users, and expecting it to be taken.

So in other words the next generation is comeing through. Experence
suggests that complianing that "It wasn't like that in my day" doesn't
work too well.

-- 
geni