Membantu penyumbang baharu memahami status dan rasional di sebalik keputusan penyelarasan (Community Wishlist/FA2/ms)

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Description

Background

Wikis are most sustainable when newcomers make constructive edits as quickly as possible. Newcomers need the space to explore and learn.

Making a first contribution is hard: first, the curiosity to make a new edit, second, the learning curve and drive to make a contribution, and third, the courage to publish an edit.

Editors and patrollers are not only responsible for maintaining wiki quality, they are also responsible for encouraging newcomers to make constructive edits.

Objectives

This focus area connects to the following Wikimedia Foundation objectives:

• WE1: Both experienced and new contributors rally together online to build a trustworthy encyclopedia, with more ease and less frustration.
• WE2: Communities are supported to effectively close knowledge gaps through tools and support systems that are easier to access, adapt, and improve, ensuring increased growth in trustworthy encyclopedic content.

Target audience

• Patrollers and advanced editors: responsible for providing support and communication to encourage newcomers to keep contributing.
• New contributors: largely unaware of the complexities of their respective wiki, are confused why their contributions sit in review for a long time, and why their edits may not be well received.

Other details

• Created: 14:20, 6 August 2024
• Last updated: 03:14, 5 October 2025

Wishes in this focus area

Below is a list of wishes that have informed this focus area. More wishes may be added to this table over time. Voting for the focus area is not a guarantee that each wish will be explicitly delivered; rather, the wishes are suggestive of the problem at large. Once a focus area is adopted, the respective team will work alongside communities to prioritize and deliver on the most impactful solutions.

Voting

This focus area currently has 11 supporters. Voting for this focus area is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this area

Support HouseBlaster (talk) 20:55, 26 August 2024

Support 2NumForIce (talk) 02:14, 27 August 2024

Support FusionSub (talk) 05:49, 27 August 2024

Support Hehua (talk) 11:06, 27 August 2024

Support Plutus (talk) 08:21, 28 August 2024

Support Shushugah (talk) 21:00, 25 September 2024

Support Swatjester (talk) 00:54, 26 September 2024

Support Waldyrious (talk) 21:54, 16 October 2024

Support Framawiki (talk) 20:46, 14 December 2025

Support SCP-2000 (talk) 15:04, 2 February 2026

Support Maxime2024 (talk) 18:39, 15 April 2026