Thread:Project talk:New contributors/Greeters?/reply (9)

The good news is that we don't expect to have as many newcomers as English Wikipedia. The other kind of news is that our newcomers might be looking for a much more diverse collection of questions. Wikipedia is mostly about editing, while here editing is only one of many potential activities, and not even the primary one.

While MediaWiki bots or categories might offer to newcomers a choice of new tasks, at the moment this is not so straightforward for development, testing, product development and other activities, many of them not happening on top of MediaWiki. I think the primary role of Greeters is to connect newcomers with a first task until completion. Once you are there porobably you can go alone for a second one, or you have met the people that will help you further in your area.