On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hoi.
Wikipedia should be more like a social network. It provides us with the
opportunity to reach out to people when we want to crowd source some
activity. We have a problem in retaining people particular newbies. When we
show a social side to our work on open content (not only encyclopaedic
content) we stand a better chance we are likely to do better.
Thanks,
GerardM
That's an interesting theory. Wikipedia is sort of the epitome of a
social enterprise, and all of the good and the bad in the project can
be traced to its social nature. Trying to make it more like a "social
network" can only be interpreted as making it more like some other
social network, perhaps by integrating purely social mechanisms a la
Facebook. Of course, that could either help or hinder, with no way to
know for sure in advance; perhaps encouraging more social interaction
would exacerbate and personalize the disputes and conflicts that drive
people away.