Carcharoth wrote:
And I think people would be surprised how many readers wouldn't dream of trying to edit, despite the messages encouraging that.
Undoubtedly people (Wikipedians) are surprised that there are so many readers who don't want to become Wikipedians in any sense. But we have to take that as a given. Assuming only that the UK readership is greater than that of the Daily Telegraph (which is to say more than 5% of the population), non-editors will outnumber editors by a huge factor. Job done, as far as gaining an audience is concerned. But the way the discussion goes after that is what bothers me. I'm certainly hoping for a more coherent view from the "grassroots", in part to displace annoying comments from people who should know better implying that the "grassroots" are the problem.
Charles