On 09/01/13 10:03, Kim Bruning wrote:
On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:45:41AM +0000, David
Gerard wrote:
Right. So anyone in this thread going into detail
about en:wp policies
is actually not addressing this, and the problem is on a higher level?
:-/ Back to the drawing board. That actually makes
the problem a lot harder!
(does mean we know where to start looking though)
I am not sure that Facebook is the problem.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wikipedia,facebook does show that
Facebook overtook Wikipedia sometime in 2007, but that happened
relatively slowly.
Having said that, there have been suggestions to introduce social
networking features in Wikipedia. WikiLove is a step in that direction.
So, what could be the next step? Befriend users and see their edits and
new articles? Like edits and articles?
We could have lists of friends. Although some would actually be enemies
lists. 172 continues to edit under several names. If I wanted to spend
all my time reversing his point of view edits a friends list with his
socks on it would be useful. This nicely illustrates the problem that
making the editing atmosphere better for some requires making it
punishing for others.
Fred