Missing recommendations about how to increase participation in under-represented group.

Something like that ;)

We need a minimum of information of the users center of interests from there we can point at articles that suit there interest and capabilities.

Another idea is to use real life events and news to emphasize selection of articles related to the subject that need improvements or creation. After the death of Michael Jackson there was a renewed drive to improve articles related to him.

Anything that help to beat to pulp the ideas like "Everything is done here" will be useful.

Anything that make potential new editors to click on the [Edit] button more often is welcome.

KrebMarkt11:03, 17 January 2010

Take a look at strategy 2 in the Local language projects recommendations, which is aimed at increasing content that are of interest to a wider cultural spectrum. The aim of a similar recommendation here would then be to make sure that the diversity of topics within a culture is all covered? I think the two recommendations could reinforce each others then.

Dafer4511:27, 17 January 2010

Another idea could be to run campaigns on the Wikipedia pages where a certain topic is highlighted in the bannerspace that is used for the fund raising during some times of the year. There could be a topic of the week/month campaign where people are encouraged to fill in gaps in underrepresented areas. People could be given the opportunity to vote for what topic they want to have their own campaign, which could help identifying what topics are likely to attract editors. A couple of administrators could coordinate such a campaig, working with identifying what articles needs to be created or expanded within that topic and providing support to new editors.

Dafer4511:48, 17 January 2010
 

I like this idea. We need to make sure that it is used to educate the person about all the possible ways to contribute.

Different people have different styles of editing or creating articles. Some people like to work on joint projects, while other people like to work alone. Some people like to start from scratch in their user space and launch and article as a well developed article, then shepherd it to a GA or FA. Other are happiest doing wikignoming by fixing spelling errors or grammar. We need to be sure to not put one style over others but work hard to embrace each person's contributions.

FloNight♥♥♥17:53, 17 January 2010