[Foundation-l] Vandalize wikipedia day on facebook

[Kul Takanao Wadhwa]

James Alexander wrote:
> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:12 AM, Anirudh Bhati <anirudhsbh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Vandalizing Wikipedia may actually get a few started on the project.  It's
>> usually easier to persuade people to do "evil" sounding things on the
>> internet than real-life - some positive externalities may arise.
>>
>> I agree, I've actually met at least 3 people "out in the world" who
>>     
> admitted to starting off vandalizing the Wikipedia and then ended up editing
> it legitimately. Two of them do very random wikiGnome stuff when they see it
> and the third has actually done quite a few articles now.
>
>   
That's very interesting to know. Do you have any idea what made them
convert from being vandals to positive contributors? Knowing more about
this, and possible identifying commonalities in these cases could help
us figure out what it might take to get more people to be good contributors.

--Kul