Hi all,
Thanks Jorm for sending this blog to me - Lukas Blakk works at Mozilla
and is an advocate for open stuff (my new favorite phrase I swiped from
the Ada Initiative!). Lukas wrote a blog about her experience putting
together an edit-a-thon at Noisebridge (an awesome hackerspace I can't
wait to check out) in San Francisco recently.
http://crashopensource.blogspot.com/2012/01/occupedia-women-contributing-to.html
Not only does she have desire to continue these events (yeah!) she
shares some cool ideas she believes might help new editors (at the bottom).
I really like the idea of having a symbol next to usernames of new
contributors; this might help with less biting and bring more attention
to new users in regards to assistance from experienced contributors.
Could be an interesting experiment! She also touches on the idea of
gamification, an idea that is sort of like the article incubator (which
encourages collaboration more than just "creating an article and hoping
that more seasoned editors approve it" which is what article review
comes off to me as being), and a more visible adoption program (and
hopefully the project I'm working on right now will help with that!).
Always excites me to see others thinking about these things who are
somewhat outside of the Wikipedia community; I think having fresh eyes
and minds on what Wikipedia needs to improve is extremely valuable.
-Sarah
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