>> >> Is anyone else excited about this idea or is it just me...? >> > >That is an intriguing concept that could indeed work quite well to get >people interested, but how many will remain interested after they >encounter gerrit?
I can't actually say I like this idea a whole lot. Here's why: * Personal appeals have to be well written in order to work. A poorly written personal appeal will not actually appeal to someone and may in fact turn them away. * We use personal appeals for the fund raising drive. I think using them here as well, especially when we have these [1] going on every year is a bad idea. * A personal appeal on a page like this is a wall of text. We need to be very careful not to elicit the "TL;DR" response from people. ** On a similar vein: This page needs to be fairly appealing in appearance, like the MediaWiki.org homepage is, or people will leave. In my experience, programmers are very practical pragmatic people. I don't think that a personal appeal is the best way to appeal to them. At least not how the idea is currently presented. The Mediawiki.org homepage does a better job of getting my hyped to use Mediawiki right now. [1]: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/wikipedia-fundraising-campaign _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
