Thank you, Scott, this is a great and important question. I go into more detail about the changes to the incentives structures for the contributors in the Wikipedia @ 20 essay here:
https://wikipedia20.pubpub.org/pub/vyf7ksah In short: it relies heavily on getting the user experience just right, and this will be one of the hardest parts of the project. But there are a few forces that conspire to improve the incentives for the contributors, such as more reach, making a current and complete Wikipedia in a smaller language editions seem feasible, reactivating previous contributors, and tailor a user experience for mobile devices. In the end, only the future will tell, but I certainly hope that this will lead to a vibrant and large community with thousands of contributors. Stay safe, Denny On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 4:54 PM Info WorldUniversity < [email protected]> wrote: > Denny, and Wikimedians, > > How to maintain the diversity of contributions, edits, individual knowledge > generators / writers, et al, on the human side of Wikipedia, by many > different language communities if these were to grow, I wonder? Is this > already part of your proposal, which I haven't come across yet? Thank you > for this great development! > > Cheers, > Scott > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:49 PM Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Elevator pitch: > > > > Many Wikipedia language editions have large gaps in knowledge. We want to > > close these gaps by allowing to create and maintain content in one place > > and allow the Wikipedias to use this content if they choose so, instead > of > > doing that in each of the Wikipedia language editions individually. This > > will allow more people to access and create more knowledge in more > > languages in the Wikipedias. > > > > In order to do this, we need to represent the content in a way that can > be > > translated to many different natural languages with high fidelity. We do > > this by introducing a new project that allows to create, maintain, > > catalogue and evaluate functions as a new form of knowledge the > communities > > work on. This will allow completely new use cases, and allow more people > to > > share in more forms of knowledge than today. > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 2:48 PM Andy Mabbett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 01:52, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > > As some of you know, I have been working on the idea of a > multilingual > > > > Wikipedia for a few years now. > > > > > > What's the elevator pitch for this? > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Andy Mabbett > > > @pigsonthewing > > > http://pigsonthewing.org.uk > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > New messages to: [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > > -- > - Scott MacLeod - Founder & President > - https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch > - World University and School > - http://worlduniversityandschool.org > - http://scottmacleod.com > > - CC World University and School - like CC Wikipedia with best STEM-centric > CC OpenCourseWare - incorporated as a nonprofit university and school in > California, and is a U.S. 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt educational organization. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
