On 27 July 2011 08:34, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
On 07/16/11 4:42 PM, Dan Dascalescu wrote:
After rating an article, there is this link asking "Did you know you could edit this page".
Just saying that is not enough to inspire people to edit.
It turns out it is:
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2011/07/15/%e2%80%9crate-this-page%e2%80%9d-is-com...
"The feature brings in editors. One of the main Strategic Goals for the upcoming year is to increase the number of active editors contributing to WMF projects. The initial data from the Article Feedback tool suggests that reader feedback could become a meaningful point of entry for future editors.
Once users have successfully submitted a rating, a randomly selected subset of them are shown an invitation to edit the page. Of the users that were invited to edit, 17% attempted to edit the page. 15% of those ended up successfully completing an edit. These results strongly suggest that a feedback tool could successfully convert passive readers into active contributors of Wikipedia. A rich text editor could make this path to editing even more promising.
While these initial results are certainly encouraging, we need to assess whether these editors are, in fact, improving Wikipedia. We need to measure their level of activity, the quality of their contributions, their longevity, and other characteristics."
- d.