Helping people better understand Wikipedia is very useful, but because it's
much more difficult to measure than checking whether someone is still
editing four weeks later it is perhaps under-rated.
On 30 May 2014 17:10, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
On 30 May 2014 15:35, rexx
<rexx(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
I think the question of the very low conversion rate of editathon editors
into regular editors is a well-studied problem.
I'm fairly relaxed about it.
Anecdotally I know some people I've trained have returned to editing after
a long period (a year or more), or have continued editing occasionally, as
IP editors. Others may not have edited again, but act as advocates, telling
other people that they can edit (and this includes librarians and
archivists I've trained, who speak to potential new editors every working
day). Even if all we achieve is to get someone to stop decrying Wikipedia
as unreliable, or to donate in our yearly drives, that's something.
One of my trainees, for example, wrote <
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisel_Haas> and never edited again (at
least, not from that account). Wikipedia is still better for having that
article, and I'm glad that the effort I invested resulted in it.
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