On 2 February 2013 03:33, Liam Wyatt liamwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
I'd like to give a giant +1 to Chris's suggestion - telling (potential) editors how many other people have read the article is a big motivator. It's logical really, we know this from the Education outreach projects and also from all the GLAM content donations: people REALLY are motivated by the fact that *their* writing and multimedia is being seen by lots of people.
Currently that information is rather hidden away in a link to the toolserver via the History tab. If you could bring that information more to the fore it could be really satisfying. For example: "30 people have looked at your article since you made your edit." or, "350 people have seen this article in the last month" or even "6 other editors have changed this article and 500 people have read it since you last helped edit it". Perhaps you could even give some more complex breakdowns with pageviews by continent?
The problem with this (or potential problem) is twofold: first, with a
large number of pages it could get spammy. Second, to my knowledge the toolserver and stats.grok.se sites are not run off any kind of live data; they're reliant on database dumps. We'd either be plugging into third-party services of unknown viability or need to make a request to analytics for them to make this kind of data more internally available and transparent, which could be a pile of work.
Just like making the timestamp more visible (and changing it to a relative number e.g. 6 hours since last edit), making the pageviews more visible are good ways of conveying the idea of how *immediate* and how *global* editing Wikipedia is.
-Liam
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On 2 February 2013 08:38, Chris McMahon cmcmahon@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Fabrice Florin fflorin@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Hi guys,
We would be grateful for your advice on how to give more positive notifications to new users after their first edits.
We're looking for notification ideas that could lead new editors towards a "happy path" to encourage further contributions.
What about "20 people have visited your user page at User:Yourname this week" or similar? I think it points up the interconnectedness of wiki users.
In general, I think notifications about people and what people do will be more welcome than notifications about pages and what is done to them. This is true of the suggestions I've read, but I think it is worth noting specifically.
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