On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
2) ask the question directly, "Why didn't you edit/register? ... x-1)
Thought it was a male-only club, x) Oh, isn't Wikipedia a nerd cabal?, x+1)
Because Wikipedia feels like a WASP-only thing" etc. This would require a
lot of effort to come up with a good phrasing to cover all "discrimination"
feelings and to avoid leading/loaded/biased questions which would skew
results, but doesn't sound impossible. (Profs in my university regularly do
such things for sexual harassment and other discrimination surveys in order
to assess the scale of the problem.)
This actually seems a bit backwards. Why not ask existing contributors why
they contribute? Especially amongst targeted populations? Develop
strategies for recruitment and retention based around those answers? My
gut feeling is that a lot of the responses that would be listed in a
questionere are based around answers like those listed. My own experience
with getting female friends to edit has been more along the lines of: 1) If
I want to contribute to something, I want to either get paid or get credit,
2) I do not see why I should bother to edit. What is in it for me? This
issue has actually come up much, much, much more frequently for me than the
issues of visual editors. I rarely see good arguments that work towards
intrinsic motivation as to why a person should contribute. I'd love to
see some good videos pitching why a person should contribute to Wikipedia,
Wikinews, Commons, Wiktionary, Wikibooks, Wikivoyage, Wikispecies, Wikidata.
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