It would be nice to have a little 6-pg workbook describing the idea of wiki, and explaining how to create + edit your own wiki pages. Texting a phone # (for tiny facts + images), offline/on a phone, on a local server, or posting asynchronously to wikimedia; and details of what is expected of edits + uploads directly to WP.
//S. On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 9:35 AM James Heilman <[email protected]> wrote: > The intro page of the offline medical wiki says that the content is written > by volunteers and invites the reader to join us and make the next version > better. > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018, 14:03 Leinonen Teemu <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Anne, > > > > On 23 Jul 2018, at 19.24, Anne Gomez <[email protected]<mailto: > > [email protected]>> wrote: > > Personally, I see the New Readers efforts as a step in that direction, > and > > not the end goal. We're working on bringing more people to understanding > > Wikipedia/Wikimedia with the hope that they'll contribute down the > line... > > but, in my opinion, we can't expect people to contribute if they don't > > visit our sites or understand the values and structures we have built to > > support building knowledge. > > > > Fair enough. I am just afraid that people who are from the beginning > > invited to be a “reader”, called “readers”, not having “edit” -button, > not > > getting the full Wikipedia -experience, will not get the “values and > > structure”, either. For them Wikipedia will be a free encyclopedia, not > the > > free encyclopedia that anyone can edit. > > > > I think the message for the people using the offline Wikipedia should be > > something like that we are really, really sorry that at this point of > time > > we can only provide you access to read the content, but we are working > hard > > to make it possible that your knowledge, in your own languages will be > part > > of the "sum of all knowledge”. :-) > > > > Best regards, > > > > - Teemu > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
