On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13 Jun 2011, at 13:55, Paul Davis wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: >>> What percentage of useful wiki edits were made by committers vs >>> non-committers? >>> >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_paper_orientation > > Not sure how this is relevant. > > If we decommission the wiki we are putting up barriers to contribution from > non-committers. So it is arguably worth while understanding exactly what that > means for us. How many people have contributed in the past who could not have > contributed if this had been the case? > >
The mode of contribution changes. There is nothing that will suddenly prevent people from contributing. Its just that making a contribution becomes a JIRA issue instead of a wiki update. Under that light your question becomes, "How many people contributed to the wiki that couldn't manage to fill out a JIRA issue?" The only way to truly understand what it'd be like to use the new system would be to build it and start using it in preference to the wiki. If it dies a gruesome death, then the wiki won. If not then eventually we'll say "Oh look, the wiki still sucks and we have all of this glorious, glorious documentation. How fabulous!" And then we will drink tea from small cups on saucers with an appropriately extended pinky finger and a monocle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Barack_Obama#Mention_of_conspiracy_theories_in_the_article.3F
