Wikipedia Task Force: Reader Conversion

[netmouse]

I have been selected to participate in the Wikipedia task force to increase contributions from readers and under-represented groups. In other words, to convert wikipedia readers to editors.

I have posted a few of my pet theories as to why people are discouraged from or disinterested in editing wikipedia on my wikipedia strategic planning user page. I welcome discussion there or here about why you or people you know choose not to edit wikipedia.

Comments

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the comments. I clarified my language a bit.

I do think that people feel injured when their work is destroyed. Not in a "moralized" sense, but simply in the sense of having experienced a loss and also perhaps an insult.

[bemused-leftist.livejournal.com]

It's certainly been a loss of time. As were apparently the comments I made here yesterday using Anonymous instead of logging in. There's an option for Disabling Anon if you don't want them, rather than letting them be added then never appear.

Well, to be charitable, maybe no one has had time to unscreen them yet?

[netmouse.livejournal.com]

I had read them, but failed to note that they were screened and required action. People very rarely make anonymous comments on this journal, so I've not built up a standard habit with regard to making sure they are unscreened. Sorry about that.

(Thanks for bringing it to my attention.)