Hi,
And yes, if you're interested in engaging (or re engaging) with people
already in the community or who don't edit as frequently perhaps, you can
contact people who have userboxes on English Wikipedia saying they are into
video games:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Userboxes/Games/Video_games
I do this for women's history projects and programs. I either use
EdwardsBot and spam them with a template inviting them to something or
whatever, or invite them individually (more time consuming of course).
Sarah
On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Quim Gil <qgil(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 07/04/2013 12:46 PM, ENWP Pine wrote:
I've asked these questions in other ways and
places and I'd like to hear
what other people on the Research and EE lists think.
There are many video game players of diverse ages, genders, languages,
and locations. How could Wikimedia editing be made into an appealing
activity for people who are currently video gamers? How could Wikimedia
market itself to gamers, including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile
gamers?
Have you asked at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Video_**games<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped…
(as an outsider) I would say that gaming in general is pretty well
covered, at least in comparison with other areas of knowledge. Or what
would be the reason to target gamers?
Editing per se is not the problem. There is no lack of gamers using wikis
(and MediaWiki!) e.g.
http://www.wikia.com/ or
http://www.minecraftwiki.net/ . The average gamer probably gets the idea
of crowdsourcing knowledge pretty well. Those wikis are community wikis
though, as an editor you won't need to deal (much) with relevance,
references, POV, essay, etc. I don't know what are the conditions to upload
copyrighted content but probably these wikis are more permissive than
Wikimedia's.
Well, I guess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Template:Move_to_gaming_wiki<http://en.wi…
for a reason. Maybe if we would send gamers (also) to
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/**Subject:Games<http://en.wikibooks.org/wik…
could keep a bit more talent around...
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