For how to make an environment that will make new people say "Hey, this looks like a fun and active community that I may want to join", I'm probably better as a test subject than anything else - I still haven't quite gotten the hang of making/sensing "community" on wikis. (Suspect it has something to do with the talk pages being out of sight, so the discussion takes place in a space that's separated from the actual article. I sometimes wander into the comments under a Wikia article, but on Wikipedia or Fanlore, I constantly forget that the talk pages are even there.)
For tutorial stuff, maybe there's some good things on Wikipedia that we can build on? As for chats, a chat window on the site itself where an experienced editor is waiting (rotation?) may be nice. I'm not so sure about scheduled chats at specific times - those are hard to get to. An open chat window or a dedicated and easy-to-find forum topic might be more accessible, and with a forum topic, new people can more easily check out questions posed earlier.
that could grow exponentially, not to mention fandom itself), but we could at least link to categories, lists, and other pages that make it clear what's present and what's missing.
*nod* Any sort of map that gives people a good overview of what we have already, and where they can dive in. And where they can feel good about having turned a red link blue ;)
As for things to add to the wishlist right now, there's articles that are about Japanese doujin fandom (category doujin_fandom) instead of about individual doujin works, and there are many more kinds of doujin works besides doujinshi, like doujin music, doujin games, etc. And do we want any sort of dedicated glossaries?
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For tutorial stuff, maybe there's some good things on Wikipedia that we can build on? As for chats, a chat window on the site itself where an experienced editor is waiting (rotation?) may be nice. I'm not so sure about scheduled chats at specific times - those are hard to get to. An open chat window or a dedicated and easy-to-find forum topic might be more accessible, and with a forum topic, new people can more easily check out questions posed earlier.
that could grow exponentially, not to mention fandom itself), but we could at least link to categories, lists, and other pages that make it clear what's present and what's missing.
*nod* Any sort of map that gives people a good overview of what we have already, and where they can dive in. And where they can feel good about having turned a red link blue ;)
As for things to add to the wishlist right now, there's articles that are about Japanese doujin fandom (category doujin_fandom) instead of about individual doujin works, and there are many more kinds of doujin works besides doujinshi, like doujin music, doujin games, etc. And do we want any sort of dedicated glossaries?