On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com> wrote:
..
Technically, we could attract raw contributors with the flick of a
finger: by encouraging editing via sitenotices.
But attracting people who won't contribute well...
That sounds like a great idea for projects where the readership and/or
editorship is low. On those projects, it is very likely that a reader
with even a tiny interest in editing can be converted to a good
editor, and they are worth the effort because they have a few rare
qualities: they can read the language and they have found the project.
Has there been any investigations in how we should use sitenotices
(and landing pages) to maximise the chance that a reader is converted,
where this is sensible?
... But I believe there is better multilingual and
multiproject
data now than we were last year.
Is there any WMF funded research in this area?
Is the data available?
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John Vandenberg