On 25/11/2009, at 12:00 AM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote: > We also might want to look into policy overhauls to reduce barriers > to contribution. > ________________________________ > From: David Moran <fordmadoxfr...@gmail.com> > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:53:35 AM > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to > encourage more edits > > I actually like this idea, a LOT. The main page basically poses > Wikipedia > as a warehouse of content, which is fine, it is that, but also does > little > to pose Wikipedia as a collaborative project. Yeah, new visitors can > technically TRY to edit our main page articles now, but generally > the stuff > that makes it there is already so polished, or so intensely guarded, > that > neophyte editors have little to no chance of making meaningful edits > on > them. I've had a couple articles I created in the Did You Know > space, so I > can definitely say that they aren't the editor-magnets that Featured > Articles or In the News are, but I think putting out there on our > front page > articles that need CONTRIBUTORS rather than just READERS (in an > obvious way, > I mean--of course all our articles need contributors) would be a very > helpful, and very easy thing for us to do.
In general, redesigning the reader-facing parts of the site to encourage contribution is something I strongly support. It will benefit us in the long run. The emphasis at present appears to be on presenting us as a place to go to learn and discover things. This is great, but it does not necessarily encourage contribution. -- Andrew Garrett agarr...@wikimedia.org http://werdn.us/ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
