On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:13:08PM +0100, Timwi wrote:
This kind of sentiment (which appears to be widespread) assumes that everyone in the world has some sort of pressing need to do something useful for Wikipedia. You blindly assume that everyone will perform the same amount of work independent of how inconvenient it is or how long it will take, supposedly because they have some inherent urge to do that work and will not be held back by any obstruction. Has anyone ever thought that if something is less convenient or takes more time, that people are by logical consequence less likely to even do it at all?
Certainly.
The curve is probably even logarithmic. The linearly easier you make a process, the logarithmically more times people will use that process, would be my bet.
I know it personally applies to me.
Cheers -- jra