Opening a ticket in phabricator about how bad editing experience on mobile
was, is, and continue to be might not be the first to be seen by the WMF,
and likely won't be the last. I won't be surprised if such tickets motivate
them to do little.
Sidenote: to be honest, editing experience on Wikipedia (and via
VisualEditor) is way more, far more, over five thousand percent better than
it used to be some years ago. You might agree with me on that. Editors from
the days of 2001 might be able to tell more from what improvements have
been achieved.
Editing isn't smooth for all, yet some countries (continents) record high
active editors. Editors from these region do not use a different Wikipedia
website than African countries.
Thus, although bad editing experience on the platform might contribute to
editor editing struggles, we also want to learn more about what other
factors are also involved.
On Saturday, September 19, 2015, rupert THURNER <rupert.thurner(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
while i am in favor to spend 150'000 cedi in ghana
every year i would love
to see contributions encouraged, be it content, software or openstreetmap.
there were a couple of beautiful efforts on english wikipedia, on commons,
as well on akan wikipedia like malaria:
https://ak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiridii
beside the cost of internet, mobile editing is crappy enough that it
blocks new editors. sit in a university and ask 500 persons to edit an
article is much more worthwile imo than ask 20 existing editors why they do
not edit so much as they could. then we could open phabricator tickets
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/ to get this fixed.
rupert
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Nkansah Rexford <
nkansahrexford(a)gmail.com
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wrote:
I think such a research is long overdue as it
will give insight into
editor patterns and more tailored to Ghanaian wiki community. Such insights
could be expanded to understanding other african countries.
You can read more from the link below.
Although internet connectivity/cost might seem a delimiting factor for
many when it comes to contributing to wmf sites, I believe there's more to
that, and hopefully, this research will give us eyes into such issues.
On Friday, September 18, 2015, <masssly(a)ymail.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','masssly@ymail.com');>> wrote:
This is to notify the Usergroup (as some might
already be aware) of a
draft proposal we are working on at
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Ghana_Editor_Study>
As part of the interventions to address the low levels of participation
from our community, this proposal intends to study a cross-section of
Ghanaian Wikipedia editors to assess factors that influence their editing
patterns and seek out possible ways to increase their activity.
All of your opinions and input are most welcome.
-Masssly
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