FamilySearch Wiki talk:Welcoming committee

Purpose of the Welcoming committee
At the Community meeting held on 8 September 2009 the topic of welcoming new contributors was discussed. It was decided that the community needed to be more welcoming and friendly. Starting with Wikipedia's as a basic model we need to adopt something like this, but more detailed and hand-holding.

''We need people who will act as mentors to new contributors once they've contributed a certain number of edits. These mentors would ask what kinds of things they want to contribute and walk them kindly through stylistic and scope issues. Mentors would also watch the contributions of new contributors so as to gently redirect them in the early weeks/months.''

I have made a start but would welcome other to add to, modify and refine these notes for established contributors to refer to when welcoming new contributors. --Steve 09:46, 19 September 2009 (UTC)