[Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

[Pharos]

I would pitch it as a simple appeal to edit the Wikipedia article on
your hometown (or home neighborhood if you're from a big city).

In my experience, something like this has been attractive to a very
broad spectrum of people, and gives them a nice "in" as a place to get
started.

Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Ziko van Dijk <vandijk at wmnederland.nl> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In principle it is a nice idea. But it is extremely diffcult to "edit"
> (to make substantial contributions) so such an initiative should be
> accompanied by more than a simple appeal...
>
> Kind regards
> Ziko
>
>
> 2012/1/2 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il>:
>> I tend to agree. At times of Fundraising, public interest grows
>> noticeably. People have been asking me aobut the banners almost every
>> day for the last few weeks. (A few times they even asked me whether
>> they are going to see a personal appeal from Amir Aharoni soon.)
>>
>> I don't think that i ever saw a focused "personal appeal + photo"
>> banner that asks people to edit instead of asking them for money. I
>> did sometime see graphical banners in Wikipedias in various languages
>> that invite people to edit or participate in writing contests.
>> Something like this is happening in the Tamil Wikipedia now (
>> http://ta.wikipedia.org/ ). I don't know how effective it is - it's
>> worth checking.
>>
>> 2012/1/2 James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our
>>> number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a
>>> fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use
>>> Wikipedia but have no ideas that they can edit it. We need to run a
>>> banner with the same energy we use to raise money to raise editor
>>> numbers. This idea has been trialed to a limited extent here
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Invitation_to_edit but the
>>> effort did not have sufficient data crunching behind it to determine
>>> if it works.
>>>
>>> --
>>> James Heilman
>>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
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