Translations:New Editor Experiences/Conceptual understanding/23/en

Finding 5

 * Introducing readers to Wikipedia's process is likely to reduce their trust in the content.
 * However, this could actually be beneficial: this lowering of perceived quality could encourage more people to edit; experienced editors are often the most critical of Wikipedia’s content.
 * This could also be of great interest to educators and librarians interested in teaching information literacy.
 * The community of [$namuwiki Namuwiki], a competitor of the Korean Wikipedia, is much more apparent to readers: its home page is almost entirely devoted to community functions (whereas Wikipedia's home page is almost entirely devoted to content), and the informal, opinionated tone of its articles lets the voice of individual contributors be heard.
 * Not all editors want to join the community or to be loudly greeted when they edit. We should make the option to become involved known, but not force it.
 * We don’t want to scare people off by showing them too much information about Wikipedia’s nature at the start—it can be more intimidating than helpful. Gradual introductions are important.
 * This finding related to finding 2, which noted that Wikipedia’s prominence frequently makes potential editors feel unqualified to edit.
 * A similar issue was recently identified in research into the general public’s use of and knowledge about Wikipedia.
 * Simply showing people the technical underpinnings of Wikipedia collaboration (e.g. explaining talk pages) may not convey how it actually works or how to actually join the community.
 * Attempts to address this could conflict with the idea held by some that “Wikipedia is not a social network”.