Research into editor retention issues is only a subset of editor retention initiatives, so a list in research space on meta is useful, but not a logical place to document initiatives that haven't involved research. That may sound surprising in this forum, but on Wikipedia there have been lots of initiatives that started off because some editors thought they would help editor retention, and there may never have been any research into whether they work. The interesting side of that is that there are lots of things that have been tried, some of which would make interesting research projects.

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Jonathan / WereSpielChequers

On 22 Jul 2015, at 18:23, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks Aaron, others can build on this. Would it be possible to include adding links to this page in the standard procedure for WMF-funded projects (grants, research, tech tools) as they are proposed, approved, updated, or evaluated? I'm not sure who to ask about this since it would require coordination among a variety of departments. Perhaps Luis?

Pine

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 8:02 AM, Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool work Jeph.  Sorry to not stop by the booth Netha.  I'm only now catching up on mailinglist stuff post-wikimania and didn't see the invitation in time. 

I have a start here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Editor_retention  Regretfully, I haven't expanded that in a year, but please do feel free to be bold.  I highlighted my own work only because it was easiest for me to summarize at the time and I was in a rust to get a few key stubs together.  Please feel free to expand to other relevant literature.  I'll help as I can manage to schedule the time.  

-Aaron 

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 7:57 PM, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:

You could start a page on meta with subpages on specific wikis. I think you will find that a devolved system will  work better than trying for a centralised system. People on the English Wikipedia running current schemes or aware of past ones might be willing to log them there, perhaps with a category, but I can't see them doing so on meta, and I doubt other languages will be different. 

On Sunday, 19 July 2015, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

OK, perhaps we should have one so that we know what's being tried and what has been tried. I'm not sure who to ask in WMF if they could set up a hub for this kind of work. Aaron, do you know?

Thanks,

Pine

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 2:13 PM, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:

No.

There is a wiki project that looks at this and many chapters, as well as I suspect many adhoc things that individual editors do. I know of enough such initiatives to know that there is no single complete list of editor retention initiatives.

Regards

Jonathan

On 19 Jul 2015, at 15:03, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:

Interesting. Is there a comprehensive list somewhere of ongoing and planned editor retention initiatives?

Pine

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