Talk:Flow Portal/Welcome Module

What content we wish new users would read
I discovered en:WP:42 recently, which I really like. (Some older diffs, were even better).

I tend to throw really short pages like this at newcomers, as much as possible. (Trifecta is the original snarky grandparent. It's teeth are falling out now. Wikipe-tan will gum you to death)

I was loving this Welcome Module overview, and thinking about my ideal shortlist, (which of course varies, depending on the demographics of the person I'm welcoming.) This is what I came up with, as core sets (scales of thinking), with good examples.

How does [x] work?
 * The code: en:WP:Cheatsheet
 * The articles: en:WP:42
 * The project: en:WP:5P

I guess VisualEditor will remove the necessity for knowing the code, so that's one down.

We do need some sort of organised structure, behind the links we select to go in a "welcome message/template". The existing variety, is staggering (en:WP:Welcoming committee/Welcome templates).

[Note: There are an absurd selection of pages to choose from, for "what I wish a newcomer knew". From Tutorials to Introductions to Simplified-Rulesets to Nutshell-policies/guidelines to task-specific help. The most uptodate compilation (afaik) of the core pages is en:Help:Contents/Directory (mostly put together by User:Moxy).]

Ramble ramble. Quiddity (talk) 06:53, 19 June 2013 (UTC)