Perhaps the best way of doing this is the admittedly laborious method of
personally communicating with new editors who seem promising and
encouraging them and offering to help them continue. The key word in this
is "personally". It cannot be effectively done with wikilove messages ,
and certainly not with anything that looks like a template. Template
welcomes are essentially in the same class as mail or web
"personalized"advertisements. What works is to show that you actually read
and appreciated what they are doing, to the extent you wanted to write
something specific.
On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Wikimedia ch is doing a big investment in supporting
communities.
There are three community liaisons (a third hired recently) to support the
three national languages which are also within the biggest linguistic
communities.
Anyway there is not a unique solution to be adapted easily in user
retention and recruiting because the world is varioius as it is the life.
Regards
Il 24/ago/2014 03:56 "James Salsman" <jsalsman(a)gmail.com> ha scritto:
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active
Foundation
initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
aware of the one project, "Task Recommendations," to try to encourage
editors who have made a few edits to make more, described starting at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JbZ1uWoKEg&t=60m20s
I am not worried about pageviews at all, given that the trend is as
constant as it has ever been when mobile users are added in to the
total. Sadly, the greater number of mobile users appears to be harming
active editor numbers beyond their already dismal trend, so it would
be nice to have an idea of exactly how much effort the Foundation is
applying to its only strategic goal which it is not achieved, and has
not ever achieved. I am amazed that so much more effort continues to
be applied to the other goals, all of which have always been met
through to the present. What does this state of affairs say about the
Foundation leadership's ability to prioritize?
Is there any evidence at all that anyone in the Foundation is
interested in any kind of change which would make non-editors more
inclined to edit, or empower editors with social factors which might
provide more time, economic power, or other means to enable them to
edit more?
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