Felipe Ortega wrote:
Wikipedia just entered a new phase. Our responsibility
(as long-time Wikipedia researchers) is to find out the causes (not necessarily negative,
please read a PDF summarizing a recent electronic interview for the Strategy plan, at
http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Interviews) and prevent any possible problems as much
in advance as possible.
Why not also conduct interviews with Wikipedia editors, either a random
sample or targeted people (for example, people who had significant
contribution and then stopped).