I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
Since so many people don't realise that Wikipedia is for anybody to edit, this could take them to a new page that explained in bold letters the concept of Wikipedia and that they could edit the article themselves, but still have an error-report field in case they still didn't get it.
While this would obviously be open to abuse, it might also provide useful feedback from people who otherwise wouldn't contribute anything, and would definitely serve to let these people know that the power is in their hands, what with the boldly-placed notice that THEY can fix it themselves and all.
I'm sure there would be way too much feedback to ever completely sift through, but I still think it might be useful.
Mark
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:15:48PM -0700, Mark Williamson wrote:
I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
Since so many people don't realise that Wikipedia is for anybody to edit, this could take them to a new page that explained in bold letters the concept of Wikipedia and that they could edit the article themselves, but still have an error-report field in case they still didn't get it.
While this would obviously be open to abuse, it might also provide useful feedback from people who otherwise wouldn't contribute anything, and would definitely serve to let these people know that the power is in their hands, what with the boldly-placed notice that THEY can fix it themselves and all.
I'm sure there would be way too much feedback to ever completely sift through, but I still think it might be useful.
Sounds like a useful idea. No need for big codebase changes either, the "add feedback" form could just be an "add new section" edit form for the article's talk page.
Mark Williamson schrieb:
I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
The German Wikipedia is already doing it, take a look at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Externhinweis
The notice is only displayed for not-logged-in users on pages that are not protected and not userpages, and only on the first Wikipedia page people reach from the outside (which in most cases means Google).
Kurt
A super idea. I would love to see both a notice like the "Welcome! you too can edit" notice on de: that Kurt describes, and a "Submit feedback!" button (with that text, or with Mark's longer text below) that takes you to the "Add a section to the talk page" form for the current article.
+sj+
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 06:27:08 +0100, Kurt Jansson jansson@gmx.net wrote:
Mark Williamson schrieb:
I thought that perhaps, for a trial period, we could add a prominently-placed button in articles for not-logged-in readers with the title of "Report an Error or Suggest Information to Add".
The German Wikipedia is already doing it, take a look at http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Externhinweis
The notice is only displayed for not-logged-in users on pages that are not protected and not userpages, and only on the first Wikipedia page people reach from the outside (which in most cases means Google).
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