On 12/30/10 10:24 AM, Platonides wrote: > Neil Kandalgaonkar wrote: >> At some point, if we believe our community is our greatest asset, we >> have to think of Wikipedia as infrastructure not only for creating high >> quality articles, but also for generating and sustaining a high quality >> editing community. >> >> So we probably need an employee dedicated to this. (I think? Arguments?) > > He would be quite busy (and polyglot!) to keep an eye over the community > of +800 projects.
Why is this a requirement? If you think about the sum total of user-hours spent on Wikipedia, the vast majority of them are spent in just three or four interface flows. But you're right; they can't be everywhere, so maybe there should be a guidelines page on design principles. We have WP:CIVILITY, do we have similar guidelines for software developers, on how to make it easy for the community to be civil? Frankly I don't think I'm qualified to do this. I know of a few people are brilliant at this, and who do this sort of thing for a living, but they are consultants. Fostering community on the web is generally considered a sort of black art... does anybody know of any less mystified way of dealing with the problem? -- Neil Kandalgaonkar ( <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
