Submissions/Wikipedia used to be cool
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This is an open submission for Wikimania 2011. |
- Review no.
102
- Title of the submission
Wikipedia used to be cool
- Type of submission (workshop, tutorial, panel, presentation)
Presentation
- Author of the submission
Christophe Henner
- E-mail address or username (if username, please confirm email address in Special:Preferences)
Schiste - christophe.henner@gmail.com
- Country of origin
France
- Affiliation, if any (organization, company etc.)
Wikimedia France
- Personal homepage or blog
- Abstract (please use no less than 300 words to describe your proposal)
For now several months, the community is discussing how we could attract more contributors? Wikimedia Foundation is hiring employees to survey the community and get a better grasp of who is contributing, etc.
All in all, we're spending more and more time, energy and money on this issue because we're not growing as fast as we used to 4 years ago. But what if we were going the wrong way ? 4 years ago Wikipedia was cool. Wikipedia was a rebel, the website freeing knowledge. The website anyone edits. Now, Facebook is cool, Twitter is cool, Wikileaks is cool but Wikipedia is part of the landscape. Now Wikipedia is a "grown-up" and we're serious now... not rebels anymore. And perhaps we should not try to fight that, but embrace it.
We're experiencing our midlife crisis, loving what we've become but missing our early days and trying to conciliate both
This session will be the opportunity to get a new point of view on the contributors growth issue.
- Track (People and Community/Knowledge and Collaboration/Infrastructure)
People and Community
- Will you attend Wikimania if your submission is not accepted?
Yes, though I'll be sad.
- Slides or further information (optional)
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