Revolutionary vs. Evolutionary Approaches to Attracting More and Better Content

Yes, there are plenty of ideas. The trick is to figure out which of these ideas help us achieve our strategic goals. A lot of the focus in the coming year should be on experimentation -- trying ideas out, measuring whether they have an impact on, say participation and diversity, and then rolling promising features out on a larger scale.

I'm also interested in how larger population trends (such as the one you noted about boomers) could impact our contributor base. One thing we know is that free time (or the desire to make free time) is a pre-requisite for being a heavy contributor. These boomers could be a huge source of knowledge with the time to contribute that knowledge, though the current editing interface will no doubt be a large barrier for this group to overcome (as it is for many folks, not just boomers).

Are you part of the the Wikimedia Gender Gap mailing list?

Howief02:00, 19 February 2011