Not sure about that specific change, but one illustration might be the Article Feedback Tool, which contains a "you know you can edit, right?" thing. Off the top of my head I think 17.4 percent of the 30-40,000 people who use it per day attempt to edit as a result of that inducement. Admittedly only 2 percent of them *succeed*, but it's not a lack of motivation, methinks.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.comwrote:
David Gerard, 31/10/2011 12:59:
On 31 October 2011 11:55, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
What's the impact of changes like
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Tagline&diff=201306...
? (Probably minimal, readers don't actually read our invitations to edit anyway, usually.)
Do we have knowledge of anyone actually starting to edit because of this?
I don't remember if we ever asked, in our general surveys, how and when contributors discovered that they /could/ edit. But perhaps after they've edited it's too late becauser they've already fallen in the category "I don't remember, I've always known it".
Nemo
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