On 22 June 2010 00:10, Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> wrote: > Isn't an iPhone one of those gadgets with about 10 cm of > screen and no keyboard? Why would we want to encourage some- > one to edit with such a device? It must be very frustrating > to do so properly, and we don't profit, in fact it is to our > disadvantage if it's done improperly.
Augmented reality. Wikipedia's coverage of local history and geography benefits if we can get edits from people on the move. > While I appreciate the efforts to encourage wider partici- > pation, IMHO we should make sure that we keep the quality of > our "products" and our "human resources" in mind. No edits > at all may be better than one edit in ten days for probably > 99% of the population. Given that 99% of the population is over 6 billion people 1 edit every ten days would result in a lot of worthwhile edits. > And I don't think that we will at- > tract the right 1% who will wander the libraries and the web > in search of the missing pieces of information, tackle thick > books and pause before clicking on the "Save" button to es- > timate whether their edit will find the approval of their > peers, by emphasizing that editing is easy or fun - because > it isn't. And it probably shouldn't be. If wikipedia is to survive it needs to be fun. If wikipedia is going to get a broad coverage it needs to be easy. -- geni _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l