contributions.
Gah! we haven't done a systematic recording as we werent prepared for it (we
werent sure how this thing would turn out). If you would accept
"eyewitness/anecdotal impressions", the following happened: (Take with many
pinches of salt and heavy skepticism)
1) The first "if you see an error, correct it" anon notice sort of doubled
anon edits. It is a small base number, so i dont think we can infer anything
statistically from this - every day about 10-15 anon edits used to happen in
Ta wiki (out of a total 600 manual non-bot edits). It increased to around
30-40 a day when this notice was up.
2) The "this guy edits X, you can edit too" campaign has increased the
"number of editors who have made 1 edit in the past 30 days" from 200-210
to 250-260
3) The nominate your article for DYK has gained five new DYK contributors
with nearly 50 new dyk nominations in three weeks. (Earlier it was a ghost
town, with only two-three of us involved in DYK maintenance).
4) Again by my impression we are suddenly seeing new persistent contributors
- not driveby's - people who stick around beyond the first experiments and
who actually ask questions and try more and more new things. If i were to
hazard a guess, we have gained about 5 new contributors in the past month
alone who have done more than 100 edits.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Gautam John <gautam(a)prathambooks.org>wrote;wrote:
You know, this is pretty awesome. It's an idea I
hadn't even thought
of till I read it here.
Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in
contributions.
Thank you.
Best,
Gautam
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On 12 September 2011 16:38, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik.lak(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello all,
Untill July, Site notice in Tamil Wikpedia used to give only prominent
links
to Fonts / typing tutorial / Village pump.
Occasionally when
meet-ups/workshops happen, we would announce them. We thought to put this
system into good use and we are already seeing positive results.
Starting July we introduced "Please correct errors, you too can edit".
There
was a significant jump in anonymous edits in the
weeks that followed.
After
discussions, we planned to showcase faces of
Tamil Wikipedia.
The idea was to put a notice featuring a picture, brief profile on
editing
topics and suggesting one to start creating
articles[1]. The short
profile
showcased the diversity of editors across region
/ age /
interests.Putting
faces of Tamil Wikipedians into sitenotice was
not a big effort since we
already had profiles of people featured on main page. We just needed to
summarize them into a couple of lines. We have got atleast 10-15 new
contributors (> 50 edits and continuing) through this exercise. One
editor
who came in after this drive is editing
prolificly and already has 2000
edits now in ~ 2 months and is now being featured on the main page :) We
had
more new users signing up as registered users. We
roll over 4-5 banners
over
a parser code during each campaign, so that
people dont get the same
banner
all the time.
Now we have separate notices for logged in / anonymous users. While
anonymous users get "Contribute" campaign with faces of tamil wiki with
Anonnotice[2], logged in users get messages about policies / help pages /
talk pages / DYK etc with help of Sitenotice[3]. DYK nominations has seem
a
jump off late with 100+ entries coming in from
contributors who didnt
know
about it after the notice. We plan to introduce
policies of Wikipedia
slowly
through these notices, so editors who come in are
aware of them. At
present
we lack extensive help pages, and plan to expand
them as part of this
exercise which will also improve help pages coverage in parallel.
There was a posting related to same on the list way back in Nov / Dec
2010
regarding Contribute Indic campaign[4] central
notices by Salmaan, We
find
these localized notices too work well and might
be a good idea for other
Indic wiki's to try it out.
[1]
http://defn.me/r/ta/2gav
[2]
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Sitenotice
[3]
http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Anonnotice
[4]
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Contribute_Indic
--
Regards
Srikanth.L
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