[WikiEN-l] newbie culture

Thu Jun 22 02:06:23 UTC 2006

Being here for 3 years (and I'm pretty sure you've been here for about that
long), I've never seen a 'new generation' start doing something like this.

On 6/16/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
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