Hi, Kai Krueger wrote: > There, we really could use some great designers, marketing and PR folk, > journalists or who ever else feels up to the task of presenting OSM to the > newbie in an appealing and accurate way to make sure they understand how the > project works and how they can contribute. > > And the best thing is, it is a wiki! So you don't need to be friends with > TomH to get it deployed, or argue with Matt about the logo, or RichardF > about what the best language is to write Potlatch in or... You can just do > it and you are much more likely to get the gratitude of all if you do.
I think there's a problem - the gratitude. I think that people, at least if they have a reasonably sized ego, are more likely to embark on something like "complete front page re-design" (let's make it a project, let's have a project manager, let's do it big, let's give it a name, and later everone says that YOU were the visionary who pulled it off) than a meagre editing of Wiki pages. Not only are you not placed on a pedestal when you do lots of work on the Wiki; there may even be others who ruin all your good work by adding their own ;-) Maybe we could find a way to make contributing to the Wiki a bit more interesting to people with ego. Have lists of top contributors (perhaps per language) and number of edits in a given timeframe, just as we have for API changes. Give them stars and badges and stuff. I'm sure Wikipedia has something we can learn from in this respect? Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
