Welcome All Newly Registered People/October2007.1
Welcomers
See Category:AboutUs Welcomer.
Obed, Asad, Umair, KristinaWeis, DannyG, BryanDaugherty... add yourself!
Task
What is this?
Welcome all logged-in users who make an edit this iteration.
Why we are doing this
To create a sense of community and give a newly registered person at least one initial point of contact within the AboutUs community.
We have reached our goals when
- All people who have registered and edited are personally welcomed.
- All people who have registered and are reading are welcomed and invited to edit.
- Our is to do this within 24 hours of their first edit or appearance on the presence meter (on the front page)
Keeping track of our progress towards our goals
What is the metric we can use here?
- How about we log here daily how many people registered that day, and how many contributed and how many we welcomed?
- # registered
- # edited
- # welcomed
Keeping track of Work/Time as a community
Work hours kept as a group - see also WelcomingPeople
- 16-Sep-2007 15 people welcomed by Kristina, Bryan & Umair
- 17-Sep-2007 DannyG (79 new, 14 contributed, 3 hours)
- 18-Sep-2007 Asad, TedErnst (17 contributers welcomed, 0.75 pair hours); Obed and Ted (20 invite-to-edit; 5 contributors, 0.75 pair hours); 1: Lahore, DannyG (69 new, 3 contributers, 3 hrs)
- 19-Sep-2007
- 20-Sep-2007
- 21-Sep-2007
- 22-Sep-2007
- 23-Sep-2007
- 24-Sep-2007
- 25-Sep-2007
- 26-Sep-2007
- 27-Sep-2007
- 28-Sep-2007
- 29-Sep-2007
- 30-Sep-2007
Discussion
further discussion to be refactored
How to find users to welcome
Kristina had asked me how I found so many new users. So I told her that I was watching the main page. In the "Currently On-Line" section is a list of users. If their name was blue they had something on their user page. So I would click on the Red ones which meant nothing on the user page. Then I would look at discussion and if it was red as well meant nothing there. I would click on it and add my template. If it was blue I left it alone and closed the window. Now you added a UserPage Template and that messed things up. Now I have to look for Blue links in the "Currently On-Line" as well. You know how if you have visited a link it changes to a different colour? Well I keep my history in my browser for AboutUs so I know if I have visited that user, I don't have to again. If I click on a blue link now and the discussion is still red, I give them a welcome if not close the window and go on. I used the new template today for a bit but found it hard to do this since the Discussion Link did not have colouring for a link. I went back to the old one.--DannyG | talk 02:22, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
I found another area to find new users. The new template for new users automatically puts them in a New user category. I have almost finished the first column and it has taken me almost 6 hours on top of watching for new users on the front page. --DannyG | talk 08:22, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
still needs refactoring
- One thing Simon said was if the person had edited something, then the welcomer personalized the message to include references to what they edited. Until your work yesterday, that was the focus of welcoming, to only do those that have edited something, and to make it highly personalized, about what they have done so far. What you did yesterday seems much wider (catching more people) and potentially shallower (for those that have edited). What do you think about this? Kristina is our most experienced welcomer, which is why I reached out to her after the IRC interaction. I'm thinking that this is worth some more conversation. What do you think? TedErnst | talk 08:24, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
I think it is worth more of a discussion. Kristina seemed to like what I was doing so far. Like I said I got some reactions from it. Oh ... and no need to explain yourself about the talk. I was just letting you know I am really easy going. --DannyG | talk 08:30, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
- I definitely like what you're doing, no question about that. The reason to talk with Kristina, in my opinion, is to decide if what we were doing before is still worth doing (the deeper approach), and if it is, how can we do both? We should probably copy this discussion (pieced back together) to an appropriate task or project page for welcoming. Are you interested in doing that? TedErnst | talk 08:36, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
Not enough experience on copying to a project yet. I might as you to do it till i get more knowledge. I am learning alot. From you I learned how to edit a template and make my own. I would love to be part of the process as well. --DannyG | talk 08:39, 13 September 2007 (PDT)
Edit(s) vs. No Edits
I think that of the two welcoming people that have made an edit is probably the most beneficial to building community, but the other can produce results and it doesn't take as long to do since there isn't any real way to personalize these sorts of messages. My thoughts are that welcome messages to people that haven't edited should be quite distinct from a message that would be left for someone who has been editing, i.e with more of a focus on "Welcome, I noticed you haven't edited anything yet... did you know you can just hit the edit tab b/c this is wiki" or something like that with edited users getting more of a "Nice work on PageX - let me know if you need any help." I tweaked something a few days back which might help catch new users that have given an e-mail address - Confirmation Complete, which is what new users see when they click to confirm their e-mail. KristinaWeis | **talk** 12:58, 17 September 2007 (PDT)
- Recently we've had some great additions to our welcoming team and a great effort is being made to 1) personally welcome users who have made edits and 2) welcome and invite newly registered users to edit who have not yet. I'd like to try out separating these two in our log at WelcomingPeople so that we can more easily track the numbers and progress of each sort of welcome.
- Excellent idea! Obed Suhail