Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-06 Thread ENWP Pine
Hi Quim and Sarah, I should have worded my question more precisely. I'm asking what Wikimedia could do to recruit people who play video games on various platforms and in various types of games (casual, FPS, MMPORG, and so on) so that they convert the time they currently use for gaming into time

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-06 Thread Lane Rasberry
Hello, There is an effort at gamification of learning Wikipedia being created at The Wikipedia Adventure. If this module works for guiding people through the introduction to Wikipedia then it could be further adapted in all kinds of

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Recruiting gamers to edit Wikimedia

2013-07-06 Thread Joe Corneli
I think there's a gap between the OP's question about "recruiting gamers" ("including console, LAN, FPS, MMORPG, and mobile gamers") and the range of ideas offered about ["]gamification["] of WP editing. But I think it could be useful to return to the initial question, and think more about what th