Thanks James for addressing such a crucial issue. It is a vital matter but
being discussed far less than other topics, in offline or offline programs,
activities. Among measures fore retaining editors, there were some banners
that appeared on top of articles viewed by new editors or readers. I've
heard that this worked somewhat but didn't continue. In Bangladesh, we're
(Wikipedians/Wikimedians) particularly discussing and talking on how to how
to retain more editors. Many people are becoming new editors but most of
them leave after some days and become inactive. The Task recommendations
seems quite interesting, but I was unaware of it. What about its
implementation? was it ever tested on any Wikipedia and if so, how
successful was it?
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Steven Walling <steven.walling(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active
Foundation
initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
aware of the one project, "Task Recommendations," to try to encourage
editors who have made a few edits to make more, described starting at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbZ1uWoKEg&t=60m20s
Task recommendations is one nascent initiative that my team is working
on.[1] We're still in the very early prototyping and testing stages. (BTW,
the whole video segment starts two minutes earlier at about the 58:00
mark.)
Task recommendations is far from the only thing we're doing to attract and
retain active editors. Pretty much the entirety of the features development
roadmap for desktop and mobile is focused on this problem. VisualEditor,
Flow, mobile web and apps work, and more all address this problem from
different angles. You can keep up with what the Foundation is doing by
checking out the monthly engineering reports.[2]
Is there any evidence at all that anyone in the
Foundation is
interested in any kind of change which would make non-editors more
inclined to edit, or empower editors with social factors which might
provide more time, economic power, or other means to enable them to
edit more?
We practically can't and don't take on initiatives that directly try to
provide more free time or money to editors. We can, however, help people do
more with the free time they have, and ask new people to become
contributors. Both of those are things we're tackling. A central goal of
improving the usability of the core editing experience across devices is to
save people time and energy. My team's also trying other things to attract
new community members, such as actually inviting people to sign up.[3]
1.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Task_recommendations
2.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/Report/latest
3.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Anonymous_editor_acquisition#Invite_users_to…
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