On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:14 AM, teun spaans teun.spaans@gmail.com wrote:
Quote:Many volunteers don't have a lot to write. This sounds like an opinion, not like a fact. Even on English wikipedia, we still have about two hundred thousand plant species to describe, and millions of animal species. And then I'm not talking about fungi and other kingdoms
That is a good point, Teun, and work between Wikispecies and Wikipedia has done more to fill taxonomy than would anywhere near exist. However, participation and growth is not purely content creation and expansion. The content is most important, but it is impossible to do so forever on the English Wikipedia in isolation. If we want to focus on how to "get a Wikipedian", it is my firm belief that we cannot. The focus, in my meager opinion, is not on instructions, wizards, or templates. The solution is what we want to acheive: knowledge. This comes from helping new users and appreciating that our content is ridiculously misunderstood for the fifth most popular website in the world.