Re: On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:13 AM, Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree that many WikiProjects are moribund, but I was only thinking of > those which are active as you need someone willing to assist in on-boarding. > I think you could do it more frequently than annually, maybe around #edit > milestones or my "developmental or interest" milestones. "Wow, Wilma, you've > participated in 20 Article for Deletion votes, have you thought of becoming > an administrator who closes these votes" (or some such). Or "Hey, Fred, > you've edited 50 articles from WikiProject Architecture, are you interested > to get more involved with this group?" > > Maybe just giving the project recruiters the tools to easily identify users > with the desired characteristics would be enough (although some guidelines > so they don't over-pester would probably be in order). They can then reach > out and onboard folks however they like. > > The same tool could also be used just to praise the users for various > milestones to motivate them. "Hey, Barney, congrats on 100 geology edits, > would you like to have a progress bar on your user page so you can set a > target and track how many geology edits you're making?". That is, try to > motivate them by setting a goal which seems to reflect what topics they like > to work on (could be based on categories and/or project tagging). > > Kerry
and On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 7:40 PM, David Goodman <[email protected]> wrote: > what mattered to me was personal appreciation of my work--just as it did in > my primary career. Not form notices, but individual public comments that > from people who showed that they understood. There is no way of automating > that. The virtues of wikiprojects (and local meetups) is of extending that > appreciation more broadly and more intensely. > I think both can be motivational. Personalized appreciation is obviously a much stronger motivator, but there are inevitable (and large) coverage-gaps if we just rely on goodwill and randomness to reach all editors deserving of feedback. Automated feedback won't appeal to all editors (and will even annoy a few), but the quantity of userboxes, and editcountitis statistics, and page-creation-lists, and user-group-powers that appear on thousands of userpages, suggests that Wikimedians can enjoy displaying their statistics and affiliations and access-permissions and expertise-areas, and knowing when they've hit a large-round-number-of-edits-milestone, or page-creations, or deletion-discussion-resolutions. Many of us might want to know more of these kinds of details about ourselves! At the far end of the automation-spectrum, but still within the realm of serious-knowledge-communities, the StackOverflow system has a variety of automated statistics and 'badges'. We wouldn't want (or be able) to do most of that, for a variety of technical and social reasons, but there's still some interesting ideas. Check out some userpages in here: * https://physics.stackexchange.com/users * https://english.stackexchange.com/users * https://math.stackexchange.com/users etc. These really are "our kind of people"! (It's near the top of "If I could clone myself..." list of places I'd also like to spend more time...) _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
