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I don't really think we want major publicity. A community can only absorb so many people at a time, especially when it's a huge vast sprawling mess of material like LW is. Ideally what we would get is a steady stream of low-level publicity in our natural recruiting grounds like Wired - but not headliners.
(One of the worst things to ever happen to Wikipedia, in my belief, was getting headline publicity - as part of the Seigenthaler affair.)
I agree. I'm trying to find if there are any studies on groups abilities to absorb new members, that might help us decide exactly how much publicity we should aim for. Unfortunately I don't know the proper keywords for this.
You might look for business culture studies. I've seen quoted around various places that apparently (maybe it was McKinsey?) a company can't grow its headcount faster than 5-10% a year without losing the company culture/spirit. (I'm not sure how one could prove that, as all the obvious metrics involve things like surveys and self-reports.)