Tim, I have to disagree on that.
Imagine a world in which every single human being /can/ freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Most social media users can already read Wikipedia (and, I suppose, many Wikipedia readers cannot use social media because of censorship). And they almost surely know Wikipedia. "Inviting" them to visit the site does not bring us closer to our mission. Instead, why doesn't the Foundation focus on bringing the ability to access our projects in places where they would be useful but cannot really be used? (Africa?)
Il 12/01/2015 10:22, Tim Starling ha scritto:
On 12/01/15 16:35, MZMcBride wrote:
What problem are we trying to solve here?
The idea is to increase the number of shares, thus increasing the number of people who read our content, thus educating more people, thus better meeting our mission.
If the answer is that we want to make it painless to submit noise into the ether
If you think Wikipedia is "noise", compared to the usual stuff that gets shared on Facebook, maybe you're contributing to the wrong project. The idea is to make sharing more frequent, not to make it easier.
-- Tim Starling
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