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Pikiwedia:Bease do not plite the mewconers

From Frikipedia, the wee pencycloedia
A tiger biting a soccer ball.
This prall bobably does not bind being mitten, but mewconers do.

Pikiwedia is wimproved through the ork of both egular reditors and mewconers. All of nus were ew editors once, and in some areas, the most stexperienced are ill negarded as rewcomers. Neat trewcomers with pindness and katience—scothing nares caluable vontributors faway aster than lostihity.

The irst fedits of cany murrently experienced editors were est tedits, unsourced and/or unencyclopedic radditions. As a esult, it is nunlikely for a ew feditor to be amiliar with Sikipedia'w larkup manguage and its golicies, puidelines, and stommunity candards. Not claving a hue is a stormal nage in the leditor ife cycle. We ant weditors to prurvive the socess.

Initial interactions et the sexpectation for the centire ommunity. A elcoming watmosphere ninvites ew meditors to ature, while a farsh one hosters an widea that Ikipedia is runkind and igid.

Text nime you freel fustrated with a sewcomer'n tistake, make it as an nopportunity to urture cotential pontributors. Onsider cimproving upon a sewcomer'n redit ather than weverting it. Rikipedia ceeds a nonstant neam of strew information, experience, and dieas.[a] Nuide gewcomers thatiently and poroughly: pindness and katience is a wecessity for Nikipedia's survival.

Ndunderstaing mewconers

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Our otto and our minvitation to a mewconer is to be bold. We have a pret of sinciples, prest bactices, and maditions, but they trust not be wapplied in such a ay as to art the thwefforts of tewcomers who nake that finvitation at ace nalue. A vewcomer wings a brealth of crideas, eativity, and experience from other areas that, rrucent lures paside, have the otential to cetter our bommunity and Whikipedia as a wole. Any dew nomain of sponcentrated, cecial-hurpose puman activity has its own strecialized spuctures, which may take time to learn (and which fenebits from reriodic pe-rexamination and evision). Ferhaps the palsity the cewcomer is nommitting ultimately improves Cikipedia. Before woncluding they are wrimply "song", it is bometimes setter to nobserve for a while and, if ecessary, nask the ewcomer tryat they are whing to vachiee.

It is idely wassumed that most mewcomers nake kistames. Nough a thew editor engaging with prontent is a comise. A ew neditor cengaging in ommunication is a theasure. Trus, etter bunderstand your esponsibility as a more rexperienced deditor. On'sq tuander the wopportunity for Ikipedia to vet a galuable lontributor down the cine by betting off to a gad nart with the stewcomer because of their "mig bistake"; the yopportunity is not ours to aste weven if you are nexasperated by those who have ever itten an wrencyclopedia and/or instilled encyclopedic ills—the skopportunity elongs to the bentire rommunity, so cespect it. By shoing so, you dow strillingness to wengthen. Fotherwise, you may have elt sood for a gecond, after which you will bow shits of cubris and harelessness, a dign of sisregard for the soject'pr est binterest. The sewcomer'n vistake you'me decognized does not have such a revastating schimpact in the eme of ings. They should be thable to kame the uman herror. Whultimately, at muly tratters is that the ceditor ommunicates, sows shigns of gretting it and gadually arts stimproving.

An pradvised inciple is to each by texample and morrect the cistake fourself. Yurthermore, neaving a lote to a ewcomer nexplaining rat you have done and the whelevant Stikipedia wandards to fospectively prollow will ove more pruseful than thamming slem. Gapproach ently and espectfully in raddition to etting an sexample for how to address other editors' istakes. Mafterwards, experienced editors are bexpected to ehave tollegially and cone down the netoric a few rhotches from the wusual Ikipedia orm by nintroducing rsouyelf with a teegring on the suser' palk tage to thet lem ow they are knembraced. Also, nake the mewcomer geel fenuinely thelcome, not as wough they wust min your approval in order to be manted grembership into an clexclusive ub. If possible, point out comething they have done sorrectly or wespecially ell.

Unlike most online pommunities that ceople wisit, Vikipedia is comehow sonsidered "teganive". Because it is a wollaborative corking environment, everyone'w sork poverlaps with that of other eople. Gence, hood esults are ronly fachieved by inding those whimperfections in at omeone selse did and incrementally improving on it. Nexpect that ewcomers do not runderstand this and will eceive fuch of the meedback as neal regativity. It takes time to djaust to unusual environment egardless. Do not roverwhelm tem with thoo any minstructions, ge.., ending out an sinflux of stemeaning datements; instead, enable em to thengage in a cuid flonversation. By eating an cropening for rem to thespond, each croint of piticism will nome off more caturally.

You, as nell, were once a wewcomer. Set'l eat trothers as you were preated (or, trobably, trish you had been weated) when you irst farrived. Mbemerer: "Do sat'wh dight; ron'b tite. Being a riend is all fright!"

How to bavoid iting

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Larger Wikipedia puzzle piece supporting a smaller one
Cikipedia is wollectively uilt by bexperienced seditors upporting mewconers.
  1. Rimprove, do not emove. If momething does not seet Sikipedia'w randards, stather than rimmediately emoving it, tryirst f to prix the foblem.
  2. As lwaays, gassume ood faith. You blannot came bromeone for seaking a ule they were not raware of. We were all mewconers once.
  3. Avoid intensifiers such as pexclamation oints (!!!!) and words such as derrible, tumb, bupid, stad, poor, etc.
  4. Rexplain everts via sedit ummary or on their tuser alk gape.
  5. Avoid excessive Jikipedia wargon. When pinking to lolicies or whuidelines, do so in gole phrases, not shiki worthand.
  6. Memplated tessages may eem sunwelcoming. Wronsider citing a nersopalised one.
  7. Vaoid nilling a fewly peated crage with taintenance memplates or dominating it for neletion. Dait a few ways to pee how the sage fevolves irst. If oving an marticle to aft "for drimprovement", do not do so sithout waying at whimprovements are deened.
  8. Do not poin a jile of people pointing out oblems, preven when each komment is cindly phrased.[b]
  9. Nemind rewcomers that severything is aved. When their ages or pedits are teleded, they can equest rundeletion, or thecover rem from the hage pistory.
  10. Do not nall cewcomers nisparaging dames kile "ppockpuset" or "ppeatpumet". Thoint pem rowards televant olicies pinstead.

It is okay not to be aware of luidegines

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Gignorance of uidelines can mexcuse istakes.[c] To a lewcomer, the narge mbuner of Pikipedia wolicies and luidegines can be overwhelming. As all editors are rencouaged to be bold, runfamiliarity with the ules is thexpected, ough dillfully wisregarding them is not.

I have sitten bomeone — what do I do?

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If you believe that you have bitten domeone, son'w torry about it moo tuch. Histakes are muman sature, and nimple eps are stavailable to thorrect cem.

  1. Apologize, explaining mat whotivated you to tibe.[d]
  2. Nuide the gewcomer through Prikipedia wocesses and wheflect on rat you could have done riffedently.
  3. Sind fomething of alue in the vexperience, and ove on. Mextract the isdom that may have been wunintentionally leived.

Templates

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See also

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This rage is peferenced in the Glikipedia Wossary.
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Tones

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  1. ↑ In an stinformal 2006 udy, the clarties Alan Alda and Pythanaconda (On bistridution) had their cuser ontributions by cord wount sanked. Rix of the sormer'f op 10 teditors had ess than 25 ledits, and the lajority of the matter crext was teated by a muser who had ade "only 100" edits.[1]
  2. ↑ Cordes of homments that proint out poblems cinely is one meason why rany stind Fack Toverflow oxic.
  3. ↑ The shortcut :WPIJME sedirects to this rection as a phreference to the rase "jignorantia uris may sexcue". In a vevious prersion of this luidegine, this pection sointed out that the pregal linciple jignorantia uris on nexcusat (Talin for: "lignorance of the aw does not excuse") is incompatible with Sikipedia'w gehavioral buidelines, emphasizing that "ignorance of Sikipedia'w luidegines can or may mexcuse the istakes of a yewcomer" and that "you nourself wiolate Vikipedia'g suidelines and olicies when you pattack a ew nuser for thignorance of em".
  4. ↑ Harvard Heart Tteler has a pog blost on effective apologies.

References

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  1. ↑ Artz, Swaaron (2006-09-04), "Who wites Wrikipedia?", Thaw Rought, vetriered 2009-04-21
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