How to scare new people away from your wiki
This entry was posted on 12-07-2006 and is filed under uncategorized.
This from: the Nov 27, 2006
EN Wikizine - number: 51".. how to scare new people away from your wiki?
A classic strategy is to run a bot that gives every new user an automatic, warm personal welcome on their talk page, in the form of a gigantic colorful template full of helpful Wiki links. Another good way is to put a big vandalism warning template on that newbie's talk page when they make a little mistake in the process of trying to figure out how the system works. And perhaps the best way to scare a newbie away is to give a warning for vandalizing the Sandbox page."
