Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/News/Interview
- Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
- A: I'm Dan, a Wikipedian since 2007, from North Carolina. I started out with an interest in history, robotics, style guidelines, and copyediting. These days, I'm the lead coordinator for the Military History Project and a reviewer of Featured Article Candidates. I've been an administrator and maintained WP:Update, a summary of policy changes, since 2008.
- Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
- A: I guess I'm most familiar with WP:MILHIST and WP:SHIPS, and I'm trying to get up to speed at WP:AVIATION. I've probably talked with members of most of the wikiprojects at one time or another.
- Q: What is the overall state of WikiProjects on Wikipedia?
- A: Different Wikipedians tend to measure success differently. Some projects are good at wikignoming, some write a lot of articles, and some produce scholarly writing on a par with anything in academia.
- Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
- A: A lot of occasional contributors who think of the project as fun rather than work, a fair number of people willing to write or review articles, a small core of like-minded people who are dedicated to building and maintaining the project, and access to at least a few people who are familiar with reviewing standards and with Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
- Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
- A: Aim for a consistent, helpful and professional image. Let people know what the project is doing and what they could be doing, but don't push. If you've got a core group interested in building a wikiproject, it helps if they do more listening than talking at first ... find out what people are trying to do, and offer them help with whatever it is. Some wikiprojects build membership by helping people get articles through the review processes.
- Q: What is the number one cause of failure of WikiProjects?
- A: "All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." —Leo Tolstoy
- Q: Thank you again. Any last thoughts you'd like to share with our readers?
- A: No, but I'll be happy to take questions. Thanks for inviting me. - Dank (push to talk) 00:05, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
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- Q: Thank you again. Any last thoughts you'd like to share with our readers?
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Feedback from 92.40.217.251 (20 April 2012)[edit]
- Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
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- Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
- A:
- Q: What is the overall state of WikiProjects on Wikipedia?
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- Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
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- Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
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- Q: What is the number one cause of failure of WikiProjects?
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- Q: Thank you again. Any last thoughts you'd like to share with our readers?
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- Q: Tell us a little about yourself.
- A:
- Q: What is your experience with WikiProjects?
- A:
- Q: What is the overall state of WikiProjects on Wikipedia?
- A:
- Q: What makes a WikiProject successful?
- A:
- Q: Do you have any tips for increasing membership?
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- Q: What is the number one cause of failure of WikiProjects?
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- Q: Thank you again. Any last thoughts you'd like to share with our readers?
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