>>Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in contributions.
Gah! we haven't done a systematic recording as we werent prepared for it (we werent sure how this thing would turn out). If you would accept "eyewitness/anecdotal impressions", the following happened: (Take with many pinches of salt and heavy skepticism) 1) The first "if you see an error, correct it" anon notice sort of doubled anon edits. It is a small base number, so i dont think we can infer anything statistically from this - every day about 10-15 anon edits used to happen in Ta wiki (out of a total 600 manual non-bot edits). It increased to around 30-40 a day when this notice was up. 2) The "this guy edits X, you can edit too" campaign has increased the "number of editors who have made 1 edit in the past 30 days" from 200-210 to 250-260 3) The nominate your article for DYK has gained five new DYK contributors with nearly 50 new dyk nominations in three weeks. (Earlier it was a ghost town, with only two-three of us involved in DYK maintenance). 4) Again by my impression we are suddenly seeing new persistent contributors - not driveby's - people who stick around beyond the first experiments and who actually ask questions and try more and more new things. If i were to hazard a guess, we have gained about 5 new contributors in the past month alone who have done more than 100 edits. On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Gautam John <gau...@prathambooks.org>wrote: > You know, this is pretty awesome. It's an idea I hadn't even thought > of till I read it here. > > Would love to see the data - particular sitenotices to spikes in > contributions. > > Thank you. > > Best, > > Gautam > ________ > http://blog.prathambooks.org/p/social-media.html > > > > > On 12 September 2011 16:38, Srikanth Lakshmanan <srik....@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hello all, > > Untill July, Site notice in Tamil Wikpedia used to give only prominent > links > > to Fonts / typing tutorial / Village pump. Occasionally when > > meet-ups/workshops happen, we would announce them. We thought to put this > > system into good use and we are already seeing positive results. > > > > Starting July we introduced "Please correct errors, you too can edit". > There > > was a significant jump in anonymous edits in the weeks that followed. > After > > discussions, we planned to showcase faces of Tamil Wikipedia. > > The idea was to put a notice featuring a picture, brief profile on > editing > > topics and suggesting one to start creating articles[1]. The short > profile > > showcased the diversity of editors across region / age / > interests.Putting > > faces of Tamil Wikipedians into sitenotice was not a big effort since we > > already had profiles of people featured on main page. We just needed to > > summarize them into a couple of lines. We have got atleast 10-15 new > > contributors (> 50 edits and continuing) through this exercise. One > editor > > who came in after this drive is editing prolificly and already has 2000 > > edits now in ~ 2 months and is now being featured on the main page :) We > had > > more new users signing up as registered users. We roll over 4-5 banners > over > > a parser code during each campaign, so that people dont get the same > banner > > all the time. > > Now we have separate notices for logged in / anonymous users. While > > anonymous users get "Contribute" campaign with faces of tamil wiki with > > Anonnotice[2], logged in users get messages about policies / help pages / > > talk pages / DYK etc with help of Sitenotice[3]. DYK nominations has seem > a > > jump off late with 100+ entries coming in from contributors who didnt > know > > about it after the notice. We plan to introduce policies of Wikipedia > slowly > > through these notices, so editors who come in are aware of them. At > present > > we lack extensive help pages, and plan to expand them as part of this > > exercise which will also improve help pages coverage in parallel. > > There was a posting related to same on the list way back in Nov / Dec > 2010 > > regarding Contribute Indic campaign[4] central notices by Salmaan, We > find > > these localized notices too work well and might be a good idea for other > > Indic wiki's to try it out. > > [1] http://defn.me/r/ta/2gav > > [2] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Sitenotice > > [3] http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediawiki:Anonnotice > > [4] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Contribute_Indic > > -- > > Regards > > Srikanth.L > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l >
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