[Foundation-l] Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to encourage more edits

[David Moran]

I actually like this idea, a LOT.  The main page basically poses Wikipedia
as a warehouse of content, which is fine, it is that, but also does little
to pose Wikipedia as a collaborative project.  Yeah, new visitors can
technically TRY to edit our main page articles now, but generally the stuff
that makes it there is already so polished, or so intensely guarded, that
neophyte editors have little to no chance of making meaningful edits on
them.  I've had a couple articles I created in the Did You Know space, so I
can definitely say that they aren't the editor-magnets that Featured
Articles or In the News are, but I think putting out there on our front page
articles that need CONTRIBUTORS rather than just READERS (in an obvious way,
I mean--of course all our articles need contributors) would be a very
helpful, and very easy thing for us to do.

FMF



On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Ting Chen <wing.philopp at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello folks,
>
> this is a suggestion to encourage more edits. It is both a topic for
> every of our projects but also of most of the  foundation projects. So I
> post it here at first and will welcome everyone to carry it to the
> single projects.
>
> On the home page of our projects for example en-wp we have the column
> "Did you know..." where we feature the new created articles. The idea is
> to create a column where we put in articles that does not exist or that
> are stubs and should be improved.
>
> The column look like:
>
> Can you tell us about ...
> * the pianist [[Veryan Weston]]
> * the [[Kansas City Philamonics]]
> * the bird [[Black-eared Seedeater]]
>
> etc.
>
> The column should be at a prominant place so that every visitor can see
> it. The requested articles can be selected by multiple ways, the
> community can discuss the way and establish a procedure.
> <
> http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Veryan_Weston&action=edit&redlink=1
> >
>
>
> --
> Ting
>
> Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/
>
>
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