Yes. the same thing has done in Tamil Wikipedia. We displayed users from different area of interest.
Example: My banner reads "Surya Prakash is a 2nd year Engineering student who is editing Chemistry, Physics related articles in Wikipedia. You too can edit!" with my picture. :) (Click here to see: Site Notice project page<http://tawp.in/r/2gav>) Please see the way we did. :) Feel free to comment on it. *$U®¥∩* http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com <http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com> http://about.me/suryaceg On 3 January 2012 22:06, James Heilman <jmh...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
