Good idea! It is important to find the edtor (wikipedian) now!
2009/11/25 Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarr...@wikimedia.org > >wrote: > > > > > 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. > > > > People interested in things that can be done to encourage a greater > conversion of people to move from "reader" to "editor" might be interested > in watching/reading Erik Moeller's presentation from Wikimania this year. > It > was about how to scale up the community to a higher level of magnitude. But > what I really took away from the presentation was the idea of > "micro-transactions" - that is, small easy edits that can be achieved with > a > relatively low level of prior knowledge of policies etc. Diversifying and > promoting these micro-transactions are a way to encourage more of our > readers to become involved in more ways than just via the scary "edit" tab. > > I'd recommend looking at the slides from this presentation (and watching > the > video) from section about "scaling up in 5 steps: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WMF-Scaling_Up-Wikimania_2009-EM.pdf&page=13 > > > -Liam Wyatt > [[witty lama]] > > > > > > -- > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Tango Chan Administrative Assistant Treasury Wikimedia Hong Kong _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
