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

[Tango Chan]

Good idea!
It is important to find the edtor (wikipedian) now!


2009/11/25 Liam Wyatt <liamwyatt at gmail.com>

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Garrett <agarrett at wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> >
> > On 25/11/2009, at 12:00 AM, Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> >
> > > We also might want to look into policy overhauls to reduce barriers
> > > to contribution.
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: David Moran <fordmadoxfraud at gmail.com>
> > > To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > > >
> > > Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:53:35 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Can you tell us about ... - An Idea to
> > > encourage more edits
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > In general, redesigning the reader-facing parts of the site to
> > encourage contribution is something I strongly support. It will
> > benefit us in the long run.
> >
> > The emphasis at present appears to be on presenting us as a place to
> > go to learn and discover things. This is great, but it does not
> > necessarily encourage contribution.
> >
>
> People interested in things that can be done to encourage a greater
> conversion of people to move from "reader" to "editor" might be interested
> in watching/reading Erik Moeller's presentation from Wikimania this year.
> It
> was about how to scale up the community to a higher level of magnitude. But
> what I really took away from the presentation was the idea of
> "micro-transactions" - that is, small easy edits that can be achieved with
> a
> relatively low level of prior knowledge of policies etc. Diversifying and
> promoting these micro-transactions are a way to encourage more of our
> readers to become involved in more ways than just via the scary "edit" tab.
>
> I'd recommend looking at the slides from this presentation (and watching
> the
> video) from section about "scaling up in 5 steps:
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WMF-Scaling_Up-Wikimania_2009-EM.pdf&page=13
>
>
> -Liam Wyatt
> [[witty lama]]
>
>
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Tango Chan
Administrative Assistant
Treasury
Wikimedia Hong Kong