Conversion hurdle race

That would work and it made me think of GoogleWave. One of the things that I like about the wave technology is that people would easily be able to invite new contributors to collaborate on a topic they believe the new particpant care about. It could help us answer the questions about "where/what", "why" and probably "how", as the inviter could give new participants the assistance they want. Imagine the impact of most of our contributors inviting new participants to join the movement.

TSB02:40, 10 November 2009

Right now there is a bit of a cultural bias *against* inviting people to edit articles on topics they care about - in particular, when articles are nominated for deletion, there is a stong stance against inviting "meatpuppets" who care about the topic to join the discussion.

I think technology that helps invite people who know and care about a topic to edit it would be good, but I am concerned it would receive cultural resistance. We also especially want to make sure invited participants understand how to edit articles without introducing bias.

Netmouse14:52, 10 November 2009