To be clear about what I meant:
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM, MZMcBride <z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Samuel Klein wrote:
tl;dr: we can attract thousands of new
contributors with almost any
combination of skills and availability, if we ask nicely.
Hmm, prove it. :-) You talk a good game and I'm not sure you're wrong, but
I haven't seen much to suggest that you're right.
The design of an effective request / campaign for a certain type of
contribution likely takes a significant amount of time and tweaking,
and a body of people available to respond to the initial interest
generated.
There was a "contribution campaign"
following the most recent fundraiser.
It would be cool to see data from that campaign.
what should we
ask for first?
Assuming that it's possible to simply ask people to get more involved and
receive willing, competent volunteers, I think you'd want to start by making
editing less painful, if the goal is to build (better) free content. Editing
sucks currently, for a lot of reasons. So you'd need developers who can
work on solutions to make it suck less. From that, better content and
contributors flow.
A list of specific "make editing less painful" problems that we know
how to solve but haven't found time to solve yet, pointing to related
bugs/feature requests, might be helpful here. [do we have the
equivalent of long-term bug reporting for known brokenness on-wiki
that requires policy or process fixes?]
SJ.