On 2016-01-08 07:27, Samuel Klein wrote:
On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:45 AM, Jonathan Cardy werespielchequers@gmail.com wrote:
More broadly it would be good to know if wikiprojects are good for editor recruitment and retention. My hypothesis is that if someone if someone tries out editing Wikipedia and is steered to an active and relevant wikiproject then they will be more likely to continue after that first trial edit. I simply don't know whether introducing people to inactive wikiprojects is worthwhile or what the cutoff is on activity.
That's probably right. I think a nice cutoff on activity would be: ask all wikiprojects to come up with a banner to show to a subset of newbies, to indicate how many newbies or impressions they want (what they think they can handle), and to create a page/section with an intro and projects for newbies, if they don't already have one. Any project that can manage this is welcome to get a few newbies to work with if they want, in my book.
Actually, already knowing how many WikiProjects are alive (for example, I watch several, and most of them are dead) would be already valuable. May be even posting a question at the talk page of every WikiProject whether the project is alive and able to set up smth would give the answer. (Number of watchers certainly does not - many projects are watched by a lot of inactive users).
Cheers Yaroslav