[OSM-talk] Re : Why do we have so many registered users with zero edits ?

[Jo]

It would be helpful to allow people to indicate in which language they
would prefer to receive messages when they sign up.
In fact it would be a good 'excuse' to contact them asking them for such
preferred language. Knowing their general location is not enough to make a
guesstimate of which language(s) they speak and understand.

When trying to reach larger and larger crowds it's important to realise not
everybody is very proficient in English.

Jo


2013/4/15 Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>

>  On 04/15/2013 04:52 PM, Mikel Maron wrote:
>
>  >  I just would offer hint's to newbies what choices they have to start
> editing.
>
>  Have any of you walked through the iD editor tour? http://ideditor.com/
> When you sign in for the first time, it guides you through usage in a
> sandbox.
> Once iD is launched on osm.ord, directing new sign ups into this straight
> away could be just the thing.
>
>
> Sweet - I had not seen it before... I'm way too focused on JOSM. Indeed it
> should help alleviate the new contributor's anxiety - A/B testing with and
> without tutorial might be interesting.
>
> Just as an aside, the video at that URL requires Flash (which I don't use)
> - which is quite paradoxical for an editor among whose feature is the
> ability to run without Flash...
>
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