[Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia

[Felipe Ortega]

--- El lun, 23/11/09, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com> escribió:

> De: Andrew Lih <andrew.lih at gmail.com>
> Asunto: Re: [Foundation-l] WSJ on Wikipedia
> Para: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Fecha: lunes, 23 de noviembre, 2009 22:49
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:28 PM,
> David Moran <fordmadoxfraud at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I think a lot of attention is paid to the way the
> technical interface is
> > hostile to newbies, and making that more user-friendly
> and democratic is
> > certainly a concern that needs to be addressed.  But
> I think the tendency of
> > older users, or certain editorially minded users, to
> squat on the project
> > and bludgeon newer users with policy pages rolled up
> into sticks is just as
> > much if not more responsible for driving away the new
> users we need to
> > replenish our ranks.
> 
> At Wikimania 2009 it was noted there were declines across
> different
> language editions, which started happening at the same
> time. This
> suggest that it's not simply the "completeness" of a
> particular
> edition at play here, as the development cycle of each
> different
> language edition should be fairly distinct. Rather, the
> sharp declines
> across languages indicates it could be a platform feature
> (ie.
> software, policy, et al) or that there is an
> interdependency across
> the language groups or some other outlying variable.
> 
> The session at Wikimania about this:
> http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:221
> 
> I'll be doing a talk at SXSW 2010 about this next year, and
> I welcome
> any/all theories and what areas of research to pursue.
> http://bit.ly/8Hh52
> 

Thank you very much, Andrew for your comments. 

I'm really afraid I won't be able to attend to SXSW 2010. But, I'll attend for sure Wikimania 2010 next year, and I hope we'll have some time to reflect on these issues.

Best,
Felipe.

> 
> -Andrew Lih
> 
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