Hello everyone,
I just wanted to share some tips that I learned these days for engaging
more people in the strategy discussions. Most of them were suggested to me
by contributors during discussions on village pumps. They might maybe help
some of you too.
Till Tuesday there was only 1 comment left on the discussion page for the
French Wikipedia. Inter-wikis such as wikiversity (fr) and wikisource (fr)
were even more active. Two days later there are over 20 folks debating in
the French Wikipedia.
Below are some of the tips that helped me:
- Switch from posting on village pumps only to posting on village pumps
AND on talk pages of active members. You may find active users with the
wikiscan tool (eg: most active users in Spanish wikipedia during February
<http://es.wikiscan.org/date/201703/users>)
- Specify in the message that you leave on talk pages of active usres
that their opinion really matters no matter if they are sysop or just doing
spelling check.
- Include in your message few links explaining the context, the overall
process, and the FAQ
- I translated, into English, the template message that I used when
inviting contributors individually. You will find it here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Outreach/French_Wikipedia#John74.2C_you_too.2C_join_the_discussion_for_the_future.27s_movement>
If you guys have any other tips that worked for you please, I would love to
hear them, especially how you get volunteers to help you summarize
discussions.
Cheers,
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