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Latest comment: 4 days ago by Buster7 in topic Conversations with a Newbie
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| Editor of the Week for the week beginning September 15, 2024 |
Revamped List of photographs considered the most important and created Blinking Sam. Has established a promising editing career. They have contributed several pieces of quality media to the featured pictures process, the often-forgotten fourth type of featured content. Also put in their time at Commons, helping make various freely licensed images more widely available to the community. Not to forget  List of edit wars on Wikipedia .
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Conversations with a Newbie
editI found this in the archives:
- They are proud of their work so don't degrade it. It may be completely trash, but it's their trash. And if someone else rightfully degrades it, help explain to the newbie why it is not an attack!.
- What's their first impression of how they are treated? Are they attacked or are they approached with respect?
- "Get to work" or "Get out of town" don't work in RL. They certainly don't work here
- A gentle reminder that "This is an encyclopedia, not Facebook"
- Be A Welcome Wagon.... barnstars, userboxes, WikiLove, Meet-N-Greet....Teahouse, etc. Use an available tool to assist their earliest ventures into editing Wikipedia.
- Help them set up a User Page. They learn some of the basic editing skills, hands-on training. Have them do the work. Setting up a User page creates a place that they belong, a place that they create. If nothing else, a user page might be the "hook" that keeps them involved.
Buster Seven Talk (UTC) 18:41, 14 September 2024 (UTC)