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

[Bence Damokos]

The idea is not bad (especially on wikis that might have more low-hanging
fruits), but it might need some work to make it work (e.g. anons cannot
create a new article on enwiki, and seeing these red links without the
ability to write the articles might be annoying to them).

There is something similar on the Recent Changes page of the English
Wikipedia, although I'm not sure, that the listed articles (e.g. schlepp
effect<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schlepp_effect&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Yiftach-El<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yiftach-El&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Shenandoah
Conservatory<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shenandoah_Conservatory&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Moldova-Suliţa,
Suceava<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Moldova-Suli%C5%A3a,_Suceava&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Zanze<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zanze&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Gordon-Haus
effect<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gordon-Haus_effect&action=edit&redlink=1>-
Yong-Sik
Jin<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yong-Sik_Jin&action=edit&redlink=1>)
would bring in a very wide audience with diverse expertise.


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Bence Damokos