Wikipedia talk:An English Wikipedian's guide

Possible addition

I think we should we add something to this page regarding the one-strike rule. Blocked or banned Wikipedians from other projects should be made aware of this from the onset. That seems fair. I don't know of any reason why this can't be added here. User:Rus793 (talk) 18:27, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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The following was removed from the page with edit summary "rvt unhelpful commentary". I put that in to try to explain to ease some of the people who come from the EN wikipedia over the culture shock. (Will it be removed from this talk page too?) That demonstrates for me that there is truly no help for this wiki project to become a place that welcomes volunteers from outside.

Tools you may expect are missing

Some of the tools that EN editors have come to rely on for maintaining a happy and civil working environment have not been implemented here. The general attitude here is "keep it simple", not just in text but with procedures and tools.

New page patrollers may hit your page within minutes, while you are still working on it (there is no New pages patrol/Noticeboard). This probably broke your train of thought, but please don't despair. Try to continue polishing, and revert the other person's changes if there is no merit to them.
It is difficult to maintain a watchlist of any size (there is no setting (preference) to "Group changes by page in recent changes and watchlist").
- If you are interested in doing only a little work here, you might want to consider putting the highly visible pages, such as those linked from the main page, on your watchlist. Highly visible pages would benefit from the vigilance of more people.
WikiLove has been implemented only in a simplified form. It will be necessary to find another way to cheer someone up with your visual puns and other apposite wit, or drop the reliance on cheering people up inside the wiki.

Sminthopsis84 (talk) 15:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

It bordered on vandalism and was quite clearly an attack on editors of this wiki. -DJSasso (talk) 18:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]