On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:11 AM, quiddity pandiculation@gmail.com wrote:
"Last edited 10 months ago, by one of 245 editors"
While I don't think "last edited" is particularly useful and I prefer to focus on simplicity and what really matters, I don't have a strong opinion either.
However, I do have a strong opinion about trying the use of "volunteers" rather than "editors". While for us wikimedians "an editor" sounds almost as familiar as a friend, for a big percentage of our readers, an editor sounds like a literary or newspaper editor, like someone almost professional and erudite, "not like me". "Volunteer" is an accurate and actually more descriptive term, which sounds a lot closer (and should I say human?), and sounds "like me" for an interesting portion of our readers.
I meant to add in my previous message, I do like your tweak of saying "volunteers". I was primarily just copying my old message, to note that it had been suggested before - I'm not attached to any particular wording or ordering, but I do strongly agree with moving away from "naming a particular person" (for rationales detailed onwiki).