Thread:Project talk:New contributors/English Wikipedia first/reply

After a quick first round of feedback:


 * We are talking primarily about tapping new readers, not editors. Editors are important too, but they are already contributing and busy. Proposals here must be visible to anonymous readers and not rely alone on watchlists, Village Pumps, etc.


 * We need to target well our actions in order to get high signal vs noise ratios, and volumes we can digest. We could potentially reach huge audiences at en.wiki, but also get drowned with noise and a volume of requests we can't handle. Some ideas:
 * Agreeing on using template in Wikipedia pages about topics where we have also information related to them. Someone created it and I actually added it to a few pages as an experiment. Some kept it, but others (more popular and maintained, like "Git") reverted it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:MediaWiki
 * Adding more connections like "For the use of Jenkins in Wikimedia projects, see..."
 * Having a category for MediaWiki/Wikimedia tech related pages and run a campaign only to the pages included there. For instance, imagine promoting the Wikimedia Hackathon during 2 weeks to readers of those pages from the Netherlands and surrounding countries.
 * Have a banner at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_testing to recruit volunteers for our next Browser testing QA week.


 * English Wikipedia first doesn't mean only. en.wiki is the most popular by far, tech readers rely on it regardless of their mother tongues and our basic contribution channels are in English-only anyway. But we will welcome collaboration and experimentation with any other Wikimedia project. In fact, even if we push en.wiki first it might well be that we end up seeing results somewhere else first, since other projects might be faster and more adventurous. All is good and will help drawing a general strategy.