On 07/20/2013 11:05 AM, Laura Hale wrote:
This actually seems a bit backwards. Why not ask
existing
contributors why they contribute?
Can that ever be useful? People easily produce
reasons after the fact, that are either untrue or
impossible to apply to other individuals.
Just look here:
My own experience with getting female friends to edit
has been more
along the lines of: 1) If I want to contribute to something, I want to
either get paid or get credit, 2) I do not see why I should bother to
edit. What is in it for me?
Turn the problem around: What's wrong with you,
Laura, (or me, for that matter) since we contribute
without credit? In the larger population, we are the
minority. Do we lack some basic street smarts, since
we devote valuable time to a hopelessly utopian
project that doesn't pay? Is our mental deficiency
more common among men than women, since men
seem to dominate those who do edit? Should we
look for more individuals that already have this
abnormal lack of a healthy level of greed?
The fact that we haven't addressed the recruiting
of new volunteers in these terms of mental disability,
is perhaps a lack of self-awareness? Are we living
in denial?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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