On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Thomas Morton < morton.tho...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> But perhaps it would be useful to suggest some specific social features > that you'd want - that might help focus the discussion. > I'm not sure that it makes sense to talk about adding "social features" in the abstract -- we're not aiming to build a social network in the real sense of the term. Rather, we should be looking at the features that drive participation at social networks (and particularly at Facebook), whether those features are an inheret part of the "social network" concept or merely incidental to it. Consider, for example, that Zynga and Facebook have successfully managed to get millions of people to log in at all hours of the night to milk virtualcows and harvest virtual beans (or whatever it is that people actually do in Farmville). Could we do something similar to drive particpation, particularly in editing areas that don't require long-duration sessions (e.g. adding or verifying citations, categorizing articles, etc.)? Even a few percent of Farmville's user base would be an order-of-magnitude increase of our own editor base; and if the price for that is letting these editors display Citationville badges on their user pages and send each other silly messages, is it not worth it? Cheers, Kirill _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l