To be clear about what I meant: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Samuel Klein wrote: >> tl;dr: we can attract thousands of new contributors with almost any >> combination of skills and availability, if we ask nicely. > > Hmm, prove it. :-) You talk a good game and I'm not sure you're wrong, but > I haven't seen much to suggest that you're right.
The design of an effective request / campaign for a certain type of contribution likely takes a significant amount of time and tweaking, and a body of people available to respond to the initial interest generated. > There was a "contribution campaign" following the most recent fundraiser. It would be cool to see data from that campaign. >> what should we ask for first? > > Assuming that it's possible to simply ask people to get more involved and > receive willing, competent volunteers, I think you'd want to start by making > editing less painful, if the goal is to build (better) free content. Editing > sucks currently, for a lot of reasons. So you'd need developers who can > work on solutions to make it suck less. From that, better content and > contributors flow. A list of specific "make editing less painful" problems that we know how to solve but haven't found time to solve yet, pointing to related bugs/feature requests, might be helpful here. [do we have the equivalent of long-term bug reporting for known brokenness on-wiki that requires policy or process fixes?] SJ. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l