On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 9:32 PM, carolmoor...@verizon.net wrote:
One thing we can all do is send letters of encouragement to women to
join wikipedia. I don't know if there is a form letter already used
that we can merge ideas like the below into. This is includes and
expands on points I
Whoops. I just re-read Carol's message -- I had misunderstood at first. If
this is an effort to recruit *brand new* contributors (as opposed to
retaining those who have dabbled), the research I cited above doesn't really
apply :)
But, I do think the findings of the Wikipedia Public Policy
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Pete Forsyth
pete.public.em...@gmail.comwrote:
But in general, it ties in with what Sue brought up: people brand new to
Wikipedia often need a *lot* of support and advice before they start to get
their legs. So directing them to educational resources, and
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Whoops. I just re-read Carol's message
On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Birgitte SB wrote:
People need to be sent to work on their passions with their personal
strengths, not just told in a blanket fashion to write some articles.
Birgitte SB
This all sounds like a pretty sound approach to me. I like it.
Another worthwhile thing,
From: Pete Forsyth petefors...@gmail.com
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Sent: Tue, February 22, 2011 10:47:23 PM
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On Feb 22, 2011, at 7:38 PM, Birgitte SB
