--- El mar, 24/11/09, Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs escribió:
De: Nikola Smolenski smolensk@eunet.rs Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Fecha: martes, 24 de noviembre, 2009 08:50 Felipe Ortega wrote:
Wikipedia just entered a new phase. Our responsibility
(as long-time Wikipedia researchers) is to find out the causes (not necessarily negative, please read a PDF summarizing a recent electronic interview for the Strategy plan, at http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interviews) and prevent any possible problems as much in advance as possible.
Why not also conduct interviews with Wikipedia editors, either a random sample or targeted people (for example, people who had significant contribution and then stopped).
Yeah, this is another interesting approach.
The problem with it is that it's difficult to contact former editors/admins, once they abandon the project definitely (in my experience). Other strategies are too aggressive (like spamming talk pages) etc. and they should always be avoided.
We had an interesting discussion about this issue in an Open Space session at WikiSym 2009. It has resulted in a new project to try and improve these communication mechanisms:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Research
Regards, F.
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