On 07/20/2013 11:05 AM, Laura Hale wrote:
This actually seems a bit backwards. Why not ask existing contributors why they contribute?
Can that ever be useful? People easily produce reasons after the fact, that are either untrue or impossible to apply to other individuals.
Just look here:
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?
Turn the problem around: What's wrong with you, Laura, (or me, for that matter) since we contribute without credit? In the larger population, we are the minority. Do we lack some basic street smarts, since we devote valuable time to a hopelessly utopian project that doesn't pay? Is our mental deficiency more common among men than women, since men seem to dominate those who do edit? Should we look for more individuals that already have this abnormal lack of a healthy level of greed?
The fact that we haven't addressed the recruiting of new volunteers in these terms of mental disability, is perhaps a lack of self-awareness? Are we living in denial?