I would pitch it as a simple appeal to edit the Wikipedia article on your hometown (or home neighborhood if you're from a big city).
In my experience, something like this has been attractive to a very broad spectrum of people, and gives them a nice "in" as a place to get started. Thanks, Richard (User:Pharos) On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Ziko van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > In principle it is a nice idea. But it is extremely diffcult to "edit" > (to make substantial contributions) so such an initiative should be > accompanied by more than a simple appeal... > > Kind regards > Ziko > > > 2012/1/2 Amir E. Aharoni <[email protected]>: >> I tend to agree. At times of Fundraising, public interest grows >> noticeably. People have been asking me aobut the banners almost every >> day for the last few weeks. (A few times they even asked me whether >> they are going to see a personal appeal from Amir Aharoni soon.) >> >> I don't think that i ever saw a focused "personal appeal + photo" >> banner that asks people to edit instead of asking them for money. I >> did sometime see graphical banners in Wikipedias in various languages >> that invite people to edit or participate in writing contests. >> Something like this is happening in the Tamil Wikipedia now ( >> http://ta.wikipedia.org/ ). I don't know how effective it is - it's >> worth checking. >> >> 2012/1/2 James Heilman <[email protected]> >>> >>> The fundraiser for money has been working exceedingly well with our >>> number of donors increasing 10 fold since 2008. What we need now is a >>> fundraiser for editors. I meet well educated professionals who use >>> Wikipedia but have no ideas that they can edit it. We need to run a >>> banner with the same energy we use to raise money to raise editor >>> numbers. This idea has been trialed to a limited extent here >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Invitation_to_edit but the >>> effort did not have sufficient data crunching behind it to determine >>> if it works. >>> >>> -- >>> James Heilman >>> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> foundation-l mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > -- > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland > dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter > http://wmnederland.nl/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
