Thanks Jason. I enjoyed reading this, though the conclusions remind me of
_Seeing Like a State_. Not all edits, editors, and subcommunities are
equal. Trying to shift about contributors en masse in a way that is
convenient for large organizations (or for those of us who like crunching
large datasets :) can be a total failure in practice.
Let's set up a new space where we can experiment with fast influxes of
newbies. The current large projects are not suited for this.
If we create a new space (workspace, namespace, knowledgespace) for people
to develop a different sort of knowledge, or in a different way, that would
be amenable to participation by tens of thousands of new users and would
not directly interfere with existing workflows: then a new founder effect,
tone, and creator network could develop in tandem with existing
communities. In that scenario, we could have a surge of new editors, and
could perhaps help them find one another and form groups and figure things
out as they go. And these could be recruited specifically from communities
that currently are unwelcome or feel underrepresented.
If we want to prevent some groups from 'taking charge' and blocking or
pushing out groups they don't agree with, this new workspace might benefit
from supporting multiple drafts of the same idea, or multiple separate
groups that can all have their own policies. The current framework on the
larger wikis of One Complete System, having lots of policy to read before
getting involved, and veterans chastising newbies for getting things wrong,
is not amenable to any rapid influx.
SJ
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Siko Bouterse <sbouterse(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Super interesting, thanks for sharing Jason.
"Can Wikipedia increase the number of new female editors four-fold and
increase new editor retention four-fold every month for three years?"
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Joseph Reagle <joseph.2011(a)reagle.org>
wrote:
Interesting!
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