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(a)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(a)aalto.fi>
wrote:
Hi Anne,
On 23 Jul 2018, at 19.24, Anne Gomez <agomez(a)wikimedia.org<mailtomailto:
agomez(a)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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