On 2/11/2011 5:41 PM, Sandra ordonez wrote:
Just wanted to share. Yesterday I put something on my facebook re: gender gap. My friend from high school, who totally would be a woman who would enjoy editing an encyclopedia, posted the following:
"Whenever I edit it usually gets taken down but some OCD nerd, that probably wants no one touching "their" site so I stopped bothering."
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results does make it clear that for people who do more than 10 edits this is two of the three issues they mention making them leave was a) they saw contributions reverted or removed over time and b) more frustration if no one explained why.
This is why I think training videos for newbies would be so helpful so they can emotionally (and hopefully amusingly) make the connection to people - all your edits may not stay, especially when you first start off before you learn what is or is not appropriate to put in an article, how to best reference and how to defend it from people who may have questionable reasons for deleting it.