I think engagement (getting people to
start editing) and disengagement (editors stopping editing) are separate
issues.
I think it’s quite true that with the
rising use of mobile, we do have to look at the engagement strategies and
disengagement issues that relate specifically to the mobile context. For
example, a pain in the arse to do citations on mobile in my experience, which
is going to make them “lower quality” edits and therefore more prone to
deletion, therefore more prone to disengagement.
Of course, there are also many issues of
engagement and disengagement that have nothing to do with the device you use
(e.g. conflict).
There’s no single answer to any of these. There
are a number of legitimate lines of enquiry and perhaps remedy here.
Kerry
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[mailto:wiki-research-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Oliver Keyes
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11:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l]
What works for increasing editor engagement?
On 14 September 2014 03:24, James Salsman <jsalsman@gmail.com>
wrote:
Oliver Keyes wrote:
> ...
>
> users display divergent behavioural patterns; you
> don't think a group that makes up 30% of pageviews
> is a user group that is a 'big deal' for engagement?
For the English Wikipedia:
>100
Million
active
mobile
Date editors Change pageviews
Change
July 2009 3,795 -7%
July 2010 3,517 -7%
278
July 2011 3,374 -4%
571 105%
July 2012 3,360 0%
1,210 112%
July 2013 3,135 -7%
1,880 55%
July 2014 3,037 -3%
3,010 60%
Where is the evidence that mobile use has any influence on editor engagement?
My apologies; there's a point of confusion here. I'm not saying that
the source of difficulties around editor engagement == mobile traffic
increases. What I'm saying is that the increase of mobile traffic is going to
have an impact on efforts to reverse the negative trend in active editors.
Sure, the problem started long before
--
Oliver Keyes
Research Analyst
Wikimedia Foundation