[WikiEN-l] How to bring back people who don't want to bother?

[Justin Cormack]

On 11 Jan 2006, at 14:57, David Gerard wrote:

> There's a specialist topic that's about to create its own wiki. In
> discussion on a board, one person said "Why not just use Wikipedia?
> What you're describing is identical." Another responded with: "No,
> some 15 year old moron will mark it for deletion just because they
> know nothing about it."
(snip)
> Experts from fields that actually haven't been alienated literally
> don't think it's worth bothering to try writing in Wikipedia any more.
> Is there anything we can do to rehabilitate Wikipedia's image in the
> outside world?

There are other reasons to create non wikipedia wikis too.

There simply is no significant community in wikipedia for some
subjects, so progress tends to be slow. You get occasional random
anon IPs editing but two or three people cant cover an entire
field. An external site may (or may not of course) get more
contributors.

Encourage them to use a compatible license, and encourage them
to use commons for media.

Maybe just merge all their articles into WP once a month
until they come back...

Whats the field?

Justinc