The &quot;retention problem&quot; isn&#39;t just relevant to new editors.  Retaining experienced Wikipedians is an equally substantial term in the equation. <div><br></div><div>Back to Laura&#39;s question: I don&#39;t know about any research of Wiki meetups, but there&#39;s been research of everything2 meetups and potential effects on participation (from WikiSym&#39;11).  See cite and free(ish) link below. </div>

<div><br></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Wyl McCully, Cliff Lampe, Chandan Sarkar, Alcides Velasquez, and Akshaya Sreevinasan. 2011. Online and offline interactions in online communities. In </span><em style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration</em><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> (WikiSym &#39;11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 39-48.</span>  </font><a href="http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/_media/proceedings:p39-mccully.pdf">http://www.wikisym.org/ws2011/_media/proceedings:p39-mccully.pdf</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>-Aaron</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Kerry Raymond <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:kerry.raymond@gmail.com" target="_blank">kerry.raymond@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>I suspect that its only fairly well-entrenched editors who attend meetups, but I agree it would be interesting data. I rather suspect that meetups are advertised in ways unlikely to reach newer editors.<br>

<br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 19/11/2012, at 10:16 AM, Laura Hale &lt;<a href="mailto:laura@fanhistory.com" target="_blank">laura@fanhistory.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">

<div>Hi,<br><br>I&#39;m wondering if anyone knows of any research on Wikimedia meetups and the effects on editor retention?<br><br>Sincerely,<br>Laura Hale<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>twitter: purplepopple<br>blog: <a href="http://ozziesport.com" target="_blank">ozziesport.com</a><br>


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