--- El lun, 23/11/09, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> escribió:
> De: Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> > Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia > Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> > Fecha: lunes, 23 de noviembre, 2009 22:49 > On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:28 PM, > David Moran <fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I think a lot of attention is paid to the way the > technical interface is > > hostile to newbies, and making that more user-friendly > and democratic is > > certainly a concern that needs to be addressed. But > I think the tendency of > > older users, or certain editorially minded users, to > squat on the project > > and bludgeon newer users with policy pages rolled up > into sticks is just as > > much if not more responsible for driving away the new > users we need to > > replenish our ranks. > > At Wikimania 2009 it was noted there were declines across > different > language editions, which started happening at the same > time. This > suggest that it's not simply the "completeness" of a > particular > edition at play here, as the development cycle of each > different > language edition should be fairly distinct. Rather, the > sharp declines > across languages indicates it could be a platform feature > (ie. > software, policy, et al) or that there is an > interdependency across > the language groups or some other outlying variable. > > The session at Wikimania about this: > http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:221 > > I'll be doing a talk at SXSW 2010 about this next year, and > I welcome > any/all theories and what areas of research to pursue. > http://bit.ly/8Hh52 > Thank you very much, Andrew for your comments. I'm really afraid I won't be able to attend to SXSW 2010. But, I'll attend for sure Wikimania 2010 next year, and I hope we'll have some time to reflect on these issues. Best, Felipe. > > -Andrew Lih > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
