[Foundation-l] Ideas for newbie recruitment

[Oliver Keyes]

Not sure about that specific change, but one illustration might be the
Article Feedback Tool, which contains a "you know you can edit, right?"
thing. Off the top of my head I think 17.4 percent of the 30-40,000 people
who use it per day attempt to edit as a result of that inducement.
Admittedly only 2 percent of them *succeed*, but it's not a lack of
motivation, methinks.

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> David Gerard, 31/10/2011 12:59:
> > On 31 October 2011 11:55, Federico Leva (Nemo)  wrote:
> >
> >> What's the impact of changes like
> >>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Tagline&diff=20130615&oldid=17050524
> >> ?
> >> (Probably minimal, readers don't actually read our invitations to edit
> >> anyway, usually.)
> >
> > Do we have knowledge of anyone actually starting to edit because of this?
>
> I don't remember if we ever asked, in our general surveys, how and when
> contributors discovered that they /could/ edit. But perhaps after
> they've edited it's too late becauser they've already fallen in the
> category "I don't remember, I've always known it".
>
> Nemo
>
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