> On 09/01/13 10:03, Kim Bruning wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 07:45:41AM +0000, David Gerard wrote: >>> Right. So anyone in this thread going into detail about en:wp policies >>> is actually not addressing this, and the problem is on a higher level? >> >> :-/ Back to the drawing board. That actually makes >> the problem a lot harder! >> >> (does mean we know where to start looking though) > > I am not sure that Facebook is the problem. > http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=wikipedia,facebook does show that > Facebook overtook Wikipedia sometime in 2007, but that happened > relatively slowly. > > Having said that, there have been suggestions to introduce social > networking features in Wikipedia. WikiLove is a step in that direction. > So, what could be the next step? Befriend users and see their edits and > new articles? Like edits and articles?
We could have lists of friends. Although some would actually be enemies lists. 172 continues to edit under several names. If I wanted to spend all my time reversing his point of view edits a friends list with his socks on it would be useful. This nicely illustrates the problem that making the editing atmosphere better for some requires making it punishing for others. Fred _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
