Even with the retention problems, getting more people to even start
will help.. Even if only 1% of the people who make their first edit go
on to write substantial articles, getting more people to make that
first edit will improve our numbers at every stage.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 22 May 2012 17:48, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
On 5/22/12, David Gerard
<dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Brian McNeil's productive work in Edinburgh.
I particularly like the
idea of recruiting newbies at libraries - with all those lovely old
printed references right there to hand. Get those library computers
being used for more than webmail. This could work anywhere.
You are not telling [me] that this isn't a perennial proposal? It's
blindingly obvious. The issue is not recruiting newbies, but keeping
them and getting them to understand how Wikipedia works, and then to
be productive instead of getting sucked into the various drama-fests.
Would be time to discuss the "how", not just the "what", then. How
to
get newcomers over initial hurdles. Just as with the issue of article
quality, there is a bit more to it than may seem at first sight.
Charles
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