 Wikipedia opening a Teahouse?, Not to be confused with Teahot |
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| melloden |
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I noticed this developing "Teahouse" project today. It seems to be yet another one of their make-new-editors-fit-in initiatives, and given that it's being organized by "community fellows" I would assume that the WMF is paying for this.
QUOTE The Teahouse is a populated, user-friendly welcome center/help space that organizes experienced editors to actively reach out to new users in a many-to-many setting and provides on-wiki encouragement and peer support to promising new editors to promote increased engagement and retention. Here's the problem I see with them wasting time and money on things like this, which are destined to end up as useless like every previous program with the same goal (Wiki Guides? Mood Bar? Wiki Love?): Wikipediots don't want to be "user-friendly" and "reach out." They're usually nerds, antisocial Internet addicts, or awkward social outcasts who don't understand the concepts of "encouragement" or "peer support." Why does the WMF not realize this? Or does this Teahouse idea actually have a chance or succeeding? I doubt it. |
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| Michaeldsuarez |
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Ãœber Member Group: Contributors Posts: 562 Joined: From: New York, New York Member No.: 24,428 |
QUOTE(melloden @ Tue 20th March 2012, 9:20pm)  Funny line on Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts: QUOTE "High School Student, video game addict, Wikipedia addict. Schools, Wikipedia IS reliable!" Guess high schools these days aren't teaching their children anything useful, as Wikipedia has a disclaimer AND anyone here can give you five examples to the contrary of this person's claim. How does blatantly lying to new users convince them to continue editing Wikipedia? I don't understand. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...Non-free_images AbigailAbernathy doesn't understand the concept of "fair use" either. |
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| lilburne |
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Chameleon Group: Contributors Posts: 890 Joined: Member No.: 21,803 |
QUOTE(Michaeldsuarez @ Wed 21st March 2012, 2:38am) AbigailAbernathy doesn't understand the concept of "fair use" either. Yeah but you're just making a little girl sad. |
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melloden Wikipedia opening a Teahouse? 
Mister Die I don't really see the whole big deal with ... 
Abd I don't really see the whole big deal with ... timbo I was invited to participate at the Teahouse but t... Cino It looks like a way for more people to understand ... thekohser
It looks like a way for more people to understand... Cunningly Linguistic
I wonder what sort of weed will be available?
I... melloden Funny line on Wikipedia:Teahouse/Hosts:
Guess h... melloden
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