Hi, I apprecite you atleast replying to this mail. I know that your points are very valid, but its not as if wikipedia was the official wiki of the world when it was started that would cause it to become so popular. I also know that you mean to be constructive with the mail and am not taking it in a bad way. As the donate button seems to be an issue I will remove it until I can set up an account that is not a personal one. I understand that I too should contribute to the wiki. The problem there is that5 I started this wiki because I am new to android and know the problems we all experiance and hoped to have a reference point to be able to find solutions. As I am new I can't really write all of it by myself, but I have added pages and will add more.
Still, thank you for the points you gave. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:37 PM, TreKing <treking...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Raghav Sood <raghavs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have waited for a while and have had no response from all of you. So I >> am trying again. Could you all help in making this wiki? Anthing android >> related is welcome on it. >> http://wiki.androidappcheck.com/ >> > > I admire your efforts but you'll likely not get a good response (again). > Here's a few things to consider that's likely keeping people from > contributing. > > 1 - Your wiki is empty. There is *NOTHING* on it. Which means no one is > reading it since there's nothing to read. So why would anyone waste their > time adding stuff to a wiki no one is reading? If I added 1 article right > now you'd have 1 article. > > If you're serious about this then *YOU* need to put the leg work up front > to "seed" it with content to make it look like it's useful, give people > something to read and a reason to visit. Through that traffic people would > eventually start editing existing topics or adding their own new ones. > > So write some starting content and / or find other existing tutorials / > examples / data sets online and ask the authors for permission to copy their > stuff over and do that. *Anything* to get something going. > > 2 - Until you started posting in this group, I for one have never heard of > you or this site. You have no name recognition. If this was > www.the-official-android-wiki.com run by Google, it would likely have a > huge following. As it stands, there is no confidence that this isn't just > some pet project some random person on the internet threw together over the > weekend. For all we know this will fizzle out and die by next week. The > complete lack of content mentioned in point 1 doesn't help. > > There's not much you can do about this but you can start by contributing to > this group with more than pleads for people to add content to your wiki. > Over time perhaps you'll gain more recognition and respect to have people > take this more seriously. > > 3 - You have a Donate button on each and every page that apparently goes > directly to you. You want an entire community to do the work to build up > knowledge on your website and donations go to you? Seriously? > > You, sir, have a pair of solid steel grapefruits that would make Stephen > Colbert jealous. > > 4 - Sorry but frankly the very people you want to contribute to this simply > have better sh*t to do. We all have apps we're working on and likely > full-time jobs and families and that minor nuisance known as life. Given > points 1, 2, and 3 there's absolutely no incentive or motivation to move > anyone to spend time on this. > > This is all meant to be constructive so I hope you take it as such. Good > luck. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Raghav Sood http://www.raghavsood.com/ http://www.androidappcheck.com/ http://www.telstop.tel/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
