Encouraging Contributions

Design elements and approaches that encourage contributors to engage, make changes and coordinate around specific tasks

Getting Started

Contributors may struggle to see the value in participating in the project.

How can you help contributors see the current state of coverage or completeness of a dataset so that they can choose where to contribute?

Contributors are not engaging with the project.

Contributors aren’t always aware of where you need help in your project.

Maintaining a mature database involves carrying smaller repetitive tasks that may be less engaging for contributors

Contributors’ attention needs to be focused on a milestone or a specific set of tasks.

Contributors need to see that the project is progressing.

Records in the dataset are incomplete but could be improved through some small additions.

It may not be clear to users that they can immediately fix a problem