There are, broadly, two kinds of ways to attract editors, ways that
attract existing wikipedia editors to specific articles (such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuggestBot ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Rescue_Squadron and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement
) and those which attract new editors to the project (such as
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon and
other outreach projects).
Both of these are worthwhile efforts, but the latter might be
preferred because by potentially expanding the size of the overall
community allows more editing to be achieved in the long-run.
cheers
stuart
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On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 12:39, Haifeng Zhang <haifeng1(a)andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
Thanks for your reply, Kerry. I meant any kind of quality improvement.
Some mechanisms may target specific type of editors, and others might be quite general.
Best,
Haifeng Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
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"Article quality" is quite a wide topic. I would imagine most good faith
contributors believe they are improving the quality of an article with every edit. Do you
have some specific type of quality improvement in mind? E.g. more citations, more content,
fewer spelling errors?
Kerry
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Dear folks,
I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects) which may
attract editors to improve article quality.
One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects, GA/FA
nominations seem useful too.
Thanks,
Haifeng Zhang
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