User talk:DFlhb/Academy

Wikipedia Academy[edit]

I'd like to create a "Wikipedia Academy", that would be inspired by (and an improvement on) WP:MILHIST's comprehensive Academy. Its goal would be to provide a centralized place, with a recognizable name, that would help new and experienced editors alike with more detailed guidance on how to develop articles, where to find sourcing (that's not easy!), picking articles to work on, etc.

Our current help pages are a complete mess; they're either not readable/approachable enough, or they're too basic, or they're just too obscure and spread-out. The fact that projects like WP:WOMRED or MILHIST need to have extensive resources page is a testament to the lack of any "real", substantial Wikipedia-wide resources. Such resources should also be grouped under a recognizable title like "Academy". When resources are hard to find, they might as well not exist! DFlhb (talk) 15:11, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'd note that this would probably make Wikipedia:Education program more effective/efficient as well. — Ixtal ^{( T / C )} ⁂ Non nobis solum. 23:27, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Status[edit]

I'm unlikely to have time to build this, at least for the next few weeks (wikibreak).

I thought I should build this Academy as a set of userspace drafts before proposing we adopt it, since inertia is quite strong on Wikipedia, and I worried such a proposal would be rejected (like most proposals) if people didn't have something concrete to judge. But I never had the time (and won't anytime soon). Anyone can feel free to run with this idea, or to start a WikiProject dedicated to building it, or to propose this Academy now before it's created; my fears of proposal-rejection are likely overblown, since I doubt anyone is happy with what we currently have. DFlhb (talk) 22:49, 9 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]