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