small and medium wikipedias

small and medium wikipedias

... to develop a strategy for converting readers into editors ... I would like to distinguish between large and small Wikipedias.

Drivers of participation says: saw error I wanted to fix and I like the idea of sharing knowledge are some of the key motivators.

At small Wikipedias the first motivator is less important, because less text means less errors. Here the second motivator is more important. At large Wikipedias, there is only a small potential of contributors left that want to share knowledge. But there are more errors to fix.

My recommendation therefor is: Small wikipedias should look for contributors who want to share knowledge (maybe the main page could be improved at a small wikipedia to address these readers or a text at the top of the wikipedia could be added to speak to all the readers) and medium wikipedias should have articles with lot of errors. That means small wikipedias should write lot of small articles witch are easy to expand. That would help to increase the chance the article will be find at a search engine. One problem is that these small wikipedias have less experienced users. Maybe we could start a project to find an experienced wikipedian at a bigger wikipedia who could help in a smaller wikipedia (Mentoring)?

Goldzahn08:36, 24 January 2010