User:GhostInTheMachine/Doors

Notes related to how people arrive at Wikipedia and what information they have available to them as they attempt to create their first article.

Raw, unsorted collection of navigation paths leading to the first article creation.

Left menu

  • Main page — Front page. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy. Green tickY
  • WP:Contents — How to find other things. read-only. Does not address contributing or policy. Green tickY
  • Help:Contents — Main entry point for the new editor or the confused ⇒
    • There is no clear Help link above the TOC — WP:HELP is Help:Contents. What should it be ...?
  • WP:About — A general introduction for visitors about WP itself.

LH menu does not have:

  • Create an article Seek to add "Create an article" to the LH menu
  • Request an article Seek to add "Request an article" to the LH menu
  • FAQ Seek to add "FAQ" to the LH menu

Information sources — one click in

Information sources — more than one click in

  • FAQ
    • Sort of help-ish, but not quite
    • Main FAQ – Main FAQ about using and contributing to Wikipedia
      • #2 is How do I create a new page? — leads to Help:Your first article (refs the Article wizard and includes direct Create Page form) and the the Article wizard (twice)
    • Contributing FAQ – Why you might want to contribute to the Wikipedia project, and how you can do it.
      • part duplicates Main FAQ
  • IRC
  • Article wizard
  • Wikipedia:Requested articles
    shortcuts WP:REQ as well as WP:SUGGEST
    • Combines instructions for requesting an article and the TOC of subjects of articles already requested
      • Needs to be split into Wikipedia:Requesting an article and Wikipedia:Requested articles
      • If you have written an article, you can submit it for creation. links to the Article wizard — This is confusing - the wizard creates an article, but the user has already written one? Clarify.
  • List of Guidelines
    • Defines Notability — Only subjects that have received significant outside attention warrant being included on Wikipedia.
    • Does not link to GNG
    • Does not link to SNG
  • WP:SNG — links to a category
    • There is no SNG article
    • Category page does not state what SNG stands for or give any definition

Doors

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