Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Effectiveness of "catching the creators while they are still online and logged in"/reply (5)

Wiki is a huge place, and I  can't  remember where I  saw it, but  I  certainly  did, because it's  one of the areas I  work on. You hit  the nail on  the head though when you  said 'insitutionalist  sounding', and that's the brunt of the problem. I have never understood why  at  en.Wiki  we can't  have friendly messages instead of the pompous walls of text that  are usually  composed. Based on my  old studies of comm.sci,, I  have a very  good idea why  this is. All UK government official  documents have lost  their Dickensian touch  over the last  decade or so (probably  thanks to  the Internet) and websites are friendlier - even  when applying online for a new passport  or driving  licence! To enhance the new user reception  and experience, these concepts need to  be borne in  mind. The de;Wiki is different, almost everything in  German sounds official, though  I  greatly  appreciate  that their more modern and more frequent  use of 'Du' on their Wiki is very refreshing. Unfortunately, English is one of the few European languages that  does not  have such  a distinction.

Note that the messages I  use are not  TLDR  diatribes with shedloads of links to  obscure policies; I  tend to  think a creator would be really  happy  if someone came on line, saw what  they  were doing, and offered some help  to  get  it  right. I know I  would,  but  in  the days when I  created my  first  pages, I  didn't  even receive a welcome template for years - and when it  came, I  had no  idea it  was only a template and I  was overjoyed at the  thought  that  someone 'up  there' had really noticed my painstaking work  on  Thailand articles. In fact  one of my  very  first  edits was to  create a cut 'n paste move -  I  had absolutely  no  idea where all  the   rules were, especially  for repairing  a misspelt page name, and nobody noticed and put  me right - or chided me for it!