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