One simple idea I had (personal capacity, etc etc) - we stick lots of banners at the top of the article saying "this has X problem! Be careful!". Would it be possible to have them appear differently to say, anonymous IPs, and display a more friendly message encouraging the users to register and deal with the problem themselves, linking to a guide focused on that specific tag (an "unreferenced" tag would lead to a "here's how to add references to articles" short guide, for example)?
On 2 January 2012 21:24, Przykuta <przyk...@o2.pl> wrote: >> The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our >> number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a >> fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use >> Wikipedia but have no ideas that they can edit it. We need to run a >> banner with the same energy we use to raise money to raise editor >> numbers. This idea has been trialed to a limited extent here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Invitation_to_edit but the >> effort did not have sufficient data crunching behind it to determine >> if it works. >> > > Data in the file from 2011-01-26 is not too good > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ENnewEditors.jpg > > Look at December 2011 -> in the file <7k, on the site >7k: > > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm > > Nov 2011 = 6734 now. These stats are not stable - last month is always the > worst. > > But invitation to edit is good idea. In pl wiki it works well. The last > edition (http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:10_prac_na_10_lat_Wikipedii > invitation by anonnotice only) gave us in July 2011 more active editors: > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/pl/activeusers/365 > > Compare with ja, it, nl, sv, ru or es wikis > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ja/activeusers/365 > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/it/activeusers/365 > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/nl/activeusers/365 > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/sv/activeusers/365 > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/ru/activeusers/365 > > http://www.wikistatistics.net/wiki/es/activeusers/365 > > These actions work well for a month. We ask readers for improve articles (the > quest must be specific -> What do we need to do / how could you help us) > > Przykuta > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l