On 5/30/12 7:19 PM, Béria Lima wrote:
I think that better than ask why people don't
contribute, is better
tell them why SHOULD they? For us is easier to pass by the fact that
not everyone knows why they should contribute. We should give they as
much info as possible to make them a contributor, not asking why they
don't do it.
Contribution is almost always a question of motivation, if you don't
motivate people to do it, they simply won't.
I think this is a good point. One of the most surprising results from
our editor surveys was large disparity between the importance that men
assign to editing Wikipedia and the importance that women assign to it.
(A significantly higher percentage of men said they edit Wikipedia
because it is important.) How is it possible that men and women view the
importance of the exact same activity in dramatically different ways? I
have a lot of theories, but I'd love to see more research into this.
Ryan Kaldari