Wikipedia Adds "WikiLove" For Newbie Editors

mikejuk writes "Wikipedia has a cunning plan to make wikipedians nicer to each other — its all about WikiLove. They can click on the Love button to make each other feel good about contributing anything from an article to an edit. The idea is that this will encourage newbie editors to stay and contribute rather than slink away into the rest of the web because their contributions get deleted and derided. Perhaps all we need for world peace is a big enough love button."

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Encouragement

[elrous0]

If you want to really encourage newbies, you need to get rid of the anal-retentive assholes with the "Now that I'm at the party, no one else is invited" attitudes. Every time I've tried to add a quality edit over there, it inevitably got removed for no good reason. And most of the time it's removed by an editor whose sole contribution to Wikipedia seemed to be removing edits. I finally just gave up trying (I suspect I'm hardly alone).