Thread:Project talk:New contributors/Greeters?/reply (2)

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The scope of this specific project might be about technical contributors, but Wikipedia also has a very similar problem with not enough new contributors. And I think the underlying problem is the same.

The founding principles look good but there should be much more focus on "4. The creation of a welcoming and collegial editorial environment."

In the past I've seen my work deleted on Wikipedia and also on mediawiki.org. I could not feel the slightest element of founding principle 4. from the people who deleted stuff. I've built some successful, active wikis and if an admin would behave like this on my wikis I would start a discussion with them. There's no such thing as this on Wikimedia projects. It's very much about policies and bureaucracy.

Greeters could be a good idea. I recently posted on the pywikipedia list with some code that is likely to be useful for other users of pywikipedia, but it's more than 1 month later and I haven't heard back from anyone. Meanwhile I simply published my code elsewhere. If someone would have greeted me and ideally given a bit of guidance I might have started doing other work on pywikipediabot by now.