[Foundation-l] A fundraiser for editors

Tue Jan 3 16:49:36 UTC 2012

Yes. the same thing has done in Tamil Wikipedia.

We displayed users from different area of interest.

Example: My banner reads

"Surya Prakash is a 2nd year Engineering student who is editing Chemistry,
Physics related articles in Wikipedia. You too can edit!"

with my picture. :) (Click here to see: Site Notice project
page<http://tawp.in/r/2gav>)
Please see the way we did. :)

Feel free to comment on it.

*$U®¥∩*
http://goo.gl/RoMyo.com <http://FirefoxSurya.blogspot.com>
http://about.me/suryaceg

On 3 January 2012 22:06, James Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am not suggesting that we use just a simple banner. We need to
> create something with a picture of a Wikipedian with text like "join
> us in improving the world leading encyclopedia, click here to learn
> how."
>
> Than when people click it will ask them "what sort of subject area are
> you interested in" with options like medicine and
> grammar/copyrediting, etc.
>
> After which it would displace important thing people need to now for
> the topic area or task they have shown interest in. For medicine they
> would be given guidelines on what are appropriate references and a
> link to WikiProject medicine where they can post comments.
>
> This effort would be supported by the number crunchers at the WMF who
> would determine which messages received more clicks and which messages
> resulted in more editors. The banner shown could also be subject area
> specific where we could test if having a medical student request
> someone joins us is more effective than having someone with a
> significant medical condition etc.
>
> --
> James Heilman
> MD, CCFP-EM, Wikipedian
>
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