Steve Bennett wrote:
On 8/25/06, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe: "New editors wanted"? - we avoid promising some kind of irrevokable privelege, without any kind of threatening undertone.
To most of the English speaking world an "Editor" does something mostly different from what an editor does on Wikipedia. Contributor is the correct word, and is the only description Wikipedians should be using when describing their position with the project to outsiders (the press, for example).
True. "Information wanted"?
Wrong.
You can make a house out of bricks, but a pile of bricks does not make a house.
You can make knowledge from information, but a pile of information does not make knowledge.
What's Jimbo's famous quote? "Imagine a world where the sum of human knowledge was available to everyone in their own language - that's what we're doing"?
"Anyone can edit" is misleading. "You could be part of"?