[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

[Samuel Klein]

Birgitte, I have greatly enjoyed all of your replies in this thread;
this one in particular.  Thank you for sharing.


On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM,  <Birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I simply see the bigger concern to be: What if we don't add 1,000 new curators who care to learn how to interpret copyright law and 3,000 new contributors who are willing respond to RfCs and participate in peer review?

Yes.

> If the underlying concern is that there are not enough veteran editors willing to educate them, or that these newcomers won't conform to our ways sufficently. Well then maybe the newcomers can educate us instead. We are great at some things we have done, but we are crap at a whole bunch of other things.  And was all trial and error to begin with!

Yes!

> obligation to pitch in.  I am certain SJ means community building as
> working together on a common objective and necessary education of
> any contributors new to some area of the wiki, rather than socializing
> for it's own sake.  Proofread of the month at Wikisource is probably a
> good example... Along these lines, I personally find community to be
> supremely motivating.
<
< I wanted to help the hard-working and helpful *people* I observed on
< the wikis long before I understood the full implications of the project.

Right.  Good faith collaboration, mentorship and inspiration are
essential to many contributors and many parts of the projects.


> I mean the collective of people,
> the collective which also sees
> this Marvelous Possibility
> which barely resembles the feeble attempts
> we have managed so far. I feel
> this collective belongs a little bit to me
> and owns a little bit of me in return.

I just printed this out and taped it to my monitor.

SJ