On 20 November 2013 18:52, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote:
Perhaps another way of putting it is to ask whether the encyclopedia-building community is the means or the ends. To my eyes, having "more contributors" is not valuable unless it has "better encyclopedia" as a direct consequence.
I think it's not a sufficient condition, but that it is a necessary one.
Think LibreOffice and their Easy Hacks list, for example - simple things a C++ coder could achieve even if unfamiliar with the (huge, hideous) code base:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks
I know the standard en:wp {{welcome}} message used to suggest things that needed attention ... though frankly, many of them don't get attention because they're stultifyingly boring (most things in [[Category:Cleanup]] are never leaving it).
- d.