On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Amir E. Aharoni < amir.ahar...@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> The English Wikipedia alone has hundreds of thousands of items to fix - > missing references, misspellings, etc. The problems are nicely sorted at > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_backlog . There are > millions of other things to fix in other projects. So quality is getting > higher in many ways, but the amount of stuff to fix is still enormous. > > What we don't have is an easy way for new people to start eliminating > items from the backlogs. The Wikidata games are a nice step in the right > direction, but their appeal to new participants is non-existent. > there is a backlog? after 15 years contributing you tell that on the research mailing list :) i used wikidata games for a couple of minutes and great pleasure when i see the link flying by in an email. but i am never able to find that link again in my life. maybe that is the problem? rename the "donate" link to "contribute" and then have "money" and "time" which links to code and content. just my 2c ... rupert
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