User talk:Ched/Helping Hands

Is this what we are aiming for? — Ched : ?  18:50, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorta, it is a good start. I think we'll eventually split off the working group from the directly helping page. I'll think about it for a bit.--Tznkai (talk) 00:15, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree ... sort of a conglomeration of things here right now. I see 3 separate items, and maybe we want to fork them off to their own pages?
 * The list of folks willing to put some effort into this
 * A list of helpful pages
 * A group of questions we are talking about.
 * Tznkai, you have a lot more experience here than I do, so I'm kinda trying to follow your lead in this - I think it's something that has some legs, and I think it's worth working on. I'm open to any and all suggestions. ;) — Ched :  ?  06:55, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Right now, this is a small handful of us who have piped up about this being an issue, but I think we have a chance of picking up more steam if we can get organized. What I'm envisioning is the following


 * A task force of experienced Wikipedians (but open to all) focusing on researching and fixing the new user experience.
 * A (meta)Wikiproject of those same people, allowing us to centralize discussion.
 * A unified new user help page associated with that Wikiproject - a centralization of the various help documents, and a quick way for new users to add their voices to our discussions, an explanation of various Wikipedia ins and outs, and a contact list of people they can ask for help.
 * Overall, the mission would be to research and develop solutions relating to the new user experiance - completely independent of position or wikikpolitics.
 * An effort should be made to speak in as plain English as possible - reducing the jargon and alphabet soup problems if we can.

--Tznkai (talk) 04:05, 24 July 2009 (UTC)