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)  
• 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

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,