[Foundation-l] Feedback tab on the English Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 9 February 2012 09:04,  <neil at thebabbages.com> wrote:

> I guess my concern is that it may encourage readers to type in suggestions and take it no further rather than take the next step and begin editing themselves.


At present, the average reader doesn't even fix typos.


> Definitely important to watch for any changes in the rate of new editors contributing. It also implicitly makes it "someone else's problem" to fix things compared to our current stock response of "if you see things that could be better, fix it yourself. " I'm not saying this is intended but it runs the risk of making projects look they have people exercising editorial control.


If it's getting any increased reader participation in any way at all,
that's a big improvement over the present. Let's see how it works out.
(With numbers.)


- d.