I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like "join us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn how."
Than when people click it will ask them "what sort of subject area are you interested in" with options like medicine and grammar/copyrediting, etc. After which it would displace important thing people need to now for the topic area or task they have shown interest in. For medicine they would be given guidelines on what are appropriate references and a link to WikiProject medicine where they can post comments. This effort would be supported by the number crunchers at the WMF who would determine which messages received more clicks and which messages resulted in more editors. The banner shown could also be subject area specific where we could test if having a medical student request someone joins us is more effective than having someone with a significant medical condition etc. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
