[Foundation-l] encouraging women's participation

[Pavlo Shevelo]

> If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going
> to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy.

Exactly!

> Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every
> ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits.

As to the best of my belief the healthier (more natural, organic)
future of WP and all other projects is contribution of wast amount of
people who work not so regularly - mainly when "curiosity strikes"
versus fierce/fanatic :-P activity of (relatively) very small ...tribe
of wp-geeks (like we are :) ).

pavlo

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 3:21 AM, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 June 2010 00:10, Tim Landscheidt <tim at tim-landscheidt.de> wrote:
>> Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of
>> screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some-
>> one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating
>> to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our
>> disadvantage if it's done improperly.
>
> Augmented reality.
>
> Wikipedia's coverage of local history and geography benefits if we can
> get edits from people on the move.
>
>>  While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici-
>> pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of
>> our "products" and our "human resources" in mind. No edits
>> at all may be better than one edit in ten days for probably
>> 99% of the population.
>
> Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every
> ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits.
>
>> And I don't think that we will at-
>> tract the right 1% who will wander the libraries and the web
>> in search of the missing pieces of information, tackle thick
>> books and pause before clicking on the "Save" button to es-
>> timate whether their edit will find the approval of their
>> peers, by emphasizing that editing is easy or fun - because
>> it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be.
>
> If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going
> to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy.
>
> --
> geni
>
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