James Heilman, 03/01/2012 17:36: > 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.
I'm quite sure this would scare them off. What about professional video instructions on fundamentals, like WMIT WikiGuides? <http://wikimedia.it/index.php/WikiGuide/en> They've been promoted only with very, very small sitenotices; perhaps the appeal from editor + video model (thested thouroughly by WMDE I think) could work, and because the video is ready it could be tested easily on it.wiki. > 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. Nemo _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
