It would be nice to have a little 6-pg workbook describing the idea of wiki, and explaining how to create + edit your own wiki pages. Texting a phone # (for tiny facts + images), offline/on a phone, on a local server, or posting asynchronously to wikimedia; and details of what is expected of edits + uploads directly to WP.
//S.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:35 AM James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
The intro page of the offline medical wiki says that the content is written by volunteers and invites the reader to join us and make the next version better.
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 14:03 Leinonen Teemu teemu.leinonen@aalto.fi wrote:
Hi Anne,
On 23 Jul 2018, at 19.24, Anne Gomez <agomez@wikimedia.orgmailto: agomez@wikimedia.org> wrote: Personally, I see the New Readers efforts as a step in that direction,
and
not the end goal. We're working on bringing more people to understanding Wikipedia/Wikimedia with the hope that they'll contribute down the
line...
but, in my opinion, we can't expect people to contribute if they don't visit our sites or understand the values and structures we have built to support building knowledge.
Fair enough. I am just afraid that people who are from the beginning invited to be a “reader”, called “readers”, not having “edit” -button,
not
getting the full Wikipedia -experience, will not get the “values and structure”, either. For them Wikipedia will be a free encyclopedia, not
the
free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.
I think the message for the people using the offline Wikipedia should be something like that we are really, really sorry that at this point of
time
we can only provide you access to read the content, but we are working
hard
to make it possible that your knowledge, in your own languages will be
part
of the "sum of all knowledge”. :-)
Best regards,
- Teemu
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