-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Some ideas to increase the social aspect of Wikipedia: - - insert a small chat with channels for each chapter (for example where the interwiki links were ;) ) - - make a tab for personal comments for articles, where people can express their feelings - - show the last 10 comments on the right side of the article - - soften the notability criterion - - make a reward system for spell correction (automatically attributed by bot unless reverted), for adding references (must be validated by moderator or voted by users) - - associate galleries of sounds and/or photos that you can expand or browse with one click - - create challenges or games for wikipedia: charades pointing to an article to be discovered, collections to be completed (find ten articles with x or y characteristics), create fantasy articles only useful for the game with a warning that it's only RPG, etc. - - allow a friend system and allow to import them from facebook - - develop the homepage of wikipedia and wikinews so that they combine major news with the major updates of the pages we are watching, and more information about your friends - - allow a button "recommend this article to a friend" with feedback from the friend, like a karma count, a thank you count, or the likes etc.
On 19/06/2010 08:37, Milos Rancic wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: >> Дана Saturday 19 June 2010 07:37:18 Milos Rancic написа: >>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: >>>> Or perhaps we don't even have to build one, but just use the existing >>>> ones. [People are always against making Wikipedia a social network.] Have >>>> RSS feeds of articles you created/pictures you uploaded. These could then >>>> be connected to Facebook or wherever for your friends to see what are you >>>> working on. >>> >>> Then you are using Facebook, not Wikimedia. And Flickr is much better >>> for private photos than Wikimedia. >> >> Then your Facebook friends will see that you are doing interesting things on >> Wikipedia projects and will want to do them too. > > I don't think that it is particularly interesting to see someone's > edits. If you are not a passionate Wikimedian, of course. > > Besides that, contemporary term for "site" is "social network". There > are just more and less successful social networks. Wikimedia is > successful social network for a very specific type of demographics: > young middle class males. Actually, not so young anymore. I think that > we are loosing males from younger generations, too. > > That means that we have to work on diversification of our editor > demographics. And one edit in ten days is better than no edits at all. > We need cleverly created concepts which would make editing easy, fun, > causal. With a lot of interesting content around; probably, based on > existing Wikimedia content, but not necessary. > > The time when wiki concept was new and interesting passed a few years > ago. And even Microsoft has better sense for new technologies than us. > > For example, our goal is not to make a possibility to read Wikipedia > from iPhone. Apple did that. The goal is to have easy access to > editing from iPhone. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMHIe3AAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6Lq+kH/0YyBREHI09b5cfsBhD3IMBV ozWjpWA2r1//t2cDaiPNpfpyNXoNRwKhCw5m5VtKbmucAiyxLyjqwmPRsh0gZULs 1gNE1bC1DPVKL0R1LZCnCJYngAmhRMODOcwv4abwigA6sqsqdXGfs+07ABHNWVzq hLlM++mEV2z8IjYIxwL7DLK5T1hK8axLSXgmP6PhhawoBZa3K8IjahHk112J8NnZ E2lKjhOs2K4R3aviDKgLONuMXYXSdoaWsV3J5TFdOKTPEWhhsMh55DO2urQyJNFT fJlWLsc3woYaEJrI2ztsLZ9/S+WYUTxoACXK0jmA78sP/e66MlYVYTOi1VOXs/E= =GQMh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
