Submissions:2016/Train reviewers to become ambassadors


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 * Theme: community


 * Academic Peer Review option: no


 * Type of submission: presentation / workshop


 * Author: Slowking4


 * E-mail address: slowking4(at)gmail.com
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 * Affiliation: WMDC; WSUG

Serious harassment thrives in an uncivil environment; New editors are greeted with an impersonal wall of templated warnings; AfC is broken; new article creators persist in resubmitting multiple times without improvement: it is failure to communicate. New page patrolers bite new editors, rather than collaborate with them to produce encyclopedic content.
 * Abstract:

praxis trumps policy or process. therefore: Train the human reviewers to collaborate with the public, using whatever tools may be available. a standard of practice can be developed, trained, and repeated using the materials from ambassadors, and wikihow welcome.

see also m:Grants:IdeaLab/train reviewers to become ambassadors


 * Length of presentation: 30-75 min. for workshops


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 * Will you attend WikiConference North America if your submission is not accepted?: yes

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