Leila - great responses, thank you.

On Jun 26, 2015 1:28 PM, "Juergen Fenn" <jfenn@gmx.net> wrote:
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> you certainly leave it to the editor whether or not to take action and actually translate an article you have suggested.
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> However, I think a threshold is crossed here with the Wikimedia Foundation interfering into the editors' business. It has generally been accepted that the Foundation will not care about content creation, except for handling DMCA takedown requests as office actions.

The WMF has cared openly about content creation since at least 2009 when quality and content metrics, and the breadth and diversity of contributors (because of its impact on content) were made core strategic goals.

But I think this is a more interesting question here: not 'can (one actor) solicit creation', but 'how can one part of the community solicit creation at large scale'.

Yes, the WMF is involved with this effort
So is Stanford. But it seems this is closer to people testing the first bots: it is about building a code and social framework in which anyone could run an outreach campaign by finding other contributors according to some metric, and asking them to do tasks according to some other metric.

That is what's primarily at stake here: whether this makes sense and how to do it well. Then secondarily, who should do it, how often, with what level of explicit buy-in.

Regards,
Sam