Thanks Jorm for sending this blog to me - Lukas Blakk works at
Mozilla and is an advocate for open stuff (my new favorite phrase I
swiped from the Ada Initiative!). Lukas wrote a blog about her
experience putting together an edit-a-thon at Noisebridge (an
awesome hackerspace I can't wait to check out) in San Francisco
recently.
Not only does she have desire to continue these events (yeah!) she
shares some cool ideas she believes might help new editors (at the
bottom).
I really like the idea of having a symbol next to usernames of new
contributors; this might help with less biting and bring more
attention to new users in regards to assistance from experienced
contributors. Could be an interesting experiment! She also touches
on the idea of gamification, an idea that is sort of like the
article incubator (which encourages collaboration more than just
"creating an article and hoping that more seasoned editors approve
it" which is what article review comes off to me as being), and a
more visible adoption program (and hopefully the project I'm working
on right now will help with that!).
Always excites me to see others thinking about these things who are
somewhat outside of the Wikipedia community; I think having fresh
eyes and minds on what Wikipedia needs to improve is extremely
valuable.
-Sarah
-- Sarah Stierch Wikimedia Foundation Community Fellow
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