Talk:Reading/Readers contributions

Clarification
Some of the options are just listed as provocation/recap of past attempts, not because you are seriously considering them, right? Nemo 12:57, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Hey, well all of them are suggestions at the end of the day.  What specifically do you find provoking?  BTW, mentioning Wikigrok, doesn't mean that the team is actually reconsidering it; just listing an example of a micro-contributions games, otherwise it would sound vague, so listing a tangible example helps visualize the idea. Same applies to article rating.  This is a very very early level of planning, the team itself isn't considering any of the ideas before discussion --lets have some good faith :)  Thank you --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 17:25, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, I think it's not especially productive to discuss ideas which are already dead in the water, so it would be helpful if the team removed the clearly discarded items. Then I can debunk the rest if needed. ;-) Nemo 17:47, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
 * MZ_PSA_6.svg haha, okay, if you found a clear way to phrase or give a tangible idea of microcontributions, then go ahead, (if Wikigrok is the problem). Just remember that this Reading team is the very team that already killed this feature earlier by themselves, without even a community consultation :) --Melamrawy (WMF) (talk) 18:27, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

All of this is a bad idea
This whole idea is wrong-headed. I hate that the WMF thinks it's a software company because it keeps giving us solutions looking for problems. The editor base (that writes the content that draws eyeballs) is made up of encyclopedists. They're self-selecting. The last thing I want is to cop-opt mere readers into doing anything. You're really just opening the door to more vandalism. I suggest that had the WMF not treated its contributors with such contempt for the past ten years you'd be in a better potion now. None of the suggestions listed on the project page are going to help the encyclopedia. It would be better if you replaced most of your tech sector workers with librarians, quite honestly. Chris Troutman ( talk ) 12:09, 19 September 2016 (UTC)