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Failure: Without it, the world would be a different place. On Wikipedia, failure is a good thing because people are prone to mistakes, and they learn as a result of them. Every administrator probably has a few projects where they failed at something, but they will tell you that they learned as a result of them.
"The popularity of Farmville advances a thesis I've been working on for years: Gaming is the best form of entertainment (ever!!) and a lot more people would take part in it if the barrier to entry ...
Always be polite, always be grateful, always apologise when you get it wrong, and always learn from your mistakes. Easy enough, you would think, but there are too many people who think "always" means "never". PearlyGigs 13:32, 25 June 2024 (UTC) trying.Slacker13 17:29, 27 June 2024 (UTC)
In his famous experiment, a cat was placed in a series of puzzle boxes in order to study the law of effect in learning. [4] He plotted to learn curves which recorded the timing for each trial. Thorndike's key observation was that learning was promoted by positive results, which was later refined and extended by B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning.
If someone more experienced than you corrects you and points you at policy, assume good faith and learn what they are asking you to learn. Refusing to learn may result in the community deciding you cannot learn. Intermediate. tip: you can pick up a lot of ideas about how consensus was previously formed by reading policy, guideline, and essay pages
Quotations embody the breezy, emotive style common in fiction and some journalism, which is generally not suited to encyclopedic writing. Long quotations crowd the actual article and distract attention from other information. Many direct quotations can be minimized in length by providing an appropriate context in the surrounding text.
"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?" – Florence, South Carolina, January 11, 2000. [4] "You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." − Townsend, Tennessee, February 21, 2001. [21] [37] "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results ...
WP:Civil PoV-pushing – essay on the misuse of superficially clever-seeming debate to push nonsense; WP:What Wikipedia is not § ADVOCACY – essay on the abuse of Wikipedia for campaigning (including against inter-article consistency) WP:Specialized-style fallacy – essay on why most arguments against WP's house style are wrong-headed