On 12/11/06, geni wrote:
First getting outsiders involved in wikipedia is always tricky. Perhaps this can be delt with through some form of marketing.
Secondly we would be looking towards some of the smaller subsets of internet users. For a lot of the internet users elvis has been dead longer than they have been alive. This could to a degree be delt with by going looking for material rather than expecting it to come to us
That's true, but I think for most of the internet users all we have really been asking them to do (from their perspective) is correct typos. If all you ever did on wikipedia was read occasional articles that were google search results you wouldn't know of any other way to help out. This is evidenced by all our experience I think. When we tell people we spend a lot of time on wikipedia, I think we have all had the experience of people not even understanding what that means, or what, other than reading we could possibly be doing.
If these image requests are actually on the articles, this could become a major change in how average readers perceive helping wikipedia. It would become not only correcting typos, but supplying content. Not everyone is willing to write an article, but I bet some people are willing to upload a photo, especially if they have an interesting one they are proud of. Make the fact that they will get attribution clear, and that they are helping a non-profit, I think that will be beneficial.
This could turn out really well.
Judson [[:en:User:Cohesion]]