There are, broadly, two kinds of ways to attract editors, ways that attract existing wikipedia editors to specific articles (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuggestBot , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Article_Rescue_Squadron and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Today%27s_articles_for_improvement ) and those which attract new editors to the project (such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_run_an_edit-a-thon and other outreach projects).
Both of these are worthwhile efforts, but the latter might be preferred because by potentially expanding the size of the overall community allows more editing to be achieved in the long-run. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Sun, 28 Apr 2019 at 12:39, Haifeng Zhang <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks for your reply, Kerry. I meant any kind of quality improvement. > > Some mechanisms may target specific type of editors, and others might be > quite general. > > > Best, > > Haifeng Zhang > > Postdoctoral Research Fellow > Human-Computer Interaction Institute > Carnegie Mellon University > ________________________________ > From: Wiki-research-l <[email protected]> on behalf > of Kerry Raymond <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2019 6:16:12 PM > To: 'Research into Wikimedia content and communities' > Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Ways thru which articles could attract editors > > "Article quality" is quite a wide topic. I would imagine most good faith > contributors believe they are improving the quality of an article with every > edit. Do you have some specific type of quality improvement in mind? E.g. > more citations, more content, fewer spelling errors? > > Kerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wiki-research-l [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Haifeng Zhang > Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2019 7:53 AM > To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities > <[email protected]> > Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Ways thru which articles could attract editors > > Dear folks, > > I wonder what are those mechanisms/events (in Wikipedia or WikiProjects) > which may attract editors to improve article quality. > > One example is Today's articles for improvement. Within WikipProjects, GA/FA > nominations seem useful too. > > > Thanks, > > Haifeng Zhang > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
