Possible "major points and findings" (BROAD focus)

Hi everyone. My name is Tyler and I am a member of the Bridgespan team that is helping to support the strategic planning process. I am looking for opportunities to support the great work that this Task Force is doing, and wanted to ask a question related to this thread and the archived materials: Does anyone know of good examples (interal to Wikimedia or external) of other web sites or online projects that are using some of the tools and approaches that are rising to the top of this group's thinking (e.g. wizard based interfaces, automating around low hanging fruit, patrolling, etc). If so, it might be helpful to do a little benchmarking and see if there are any interesting learnings, keys to success, or watch-outs that might be relevant as you continue to push towards recommendations. I would love to contribute to that research if you think that it would be helpful, but need ideas for good places to start!

Hi Tyler, and welcome! :-)

We need to talk to both WikiHow and Wikia about both of these topics, as they have lots of important lessons we can draw from. Let me know if you need help connecting with them. Thanks for all your great work so far!

I think WikiHow attracts a substantially different class of contributors, because their license forbids commercial re-use of editor contributions. I see that as an unfortunate restriction, so I don't contribute there.

I noted this difference in wikiHow.

For the purposes of understanding how the tool can influence quality, I think wikiHow is an excellent model.

Thanks for the suggestions! Are there others we should consider from the perspective of how tools influence quality? What about other collaborative encyclopedias like Hudong?

Here's the information we currently know about Baidu and Hudong. You may want to pose these questions to the China Task force to see if they have insights or can post screenshots.

Tyler - no, I can't think of any (though I wouldn't be surprised if others have designed them).

As the usage here is pretty specialized I'm inclined to say "don't expect to find examples elsewhere". A bit like Mediawiki itself, it's going to be a "home creation" job. I'm happy to do some mockups if that would help.

I see the taskforce as better in coming up with the ideas on functionality/approach/ethos needed, rather than trying to locate specific exemplars. I think we'd be hard pressed on the latter anyway...