[Foundation-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Fwd: Announcement: New editor engagement experiments team!

[John Vandenberg]

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
>..
> Technically, we could attract raw contributors with the flick of a
> finger: by encouraging editing via sitenotices.
> But attracting people who won't contribute well...

That sounds like a great idea for projects where the readership and/or
editorship is low.  On those projects, it is very likely that a reader
with even a tiny interest in editing can be converted to a good
editor, and they are worth the effort because they have a few rare
qualities: they can read the language and they have found the project.

Has there been any investigations in how we should use sitenotices
(and landing pages) to maximise the chance that a reader is converted,
where this is sensible?

> ... But I believe there is better multilingual and multiproject
> data now than we were last year.

Is there any WMF funded research in this area?
Is the data available?

-- 
John Vandenberg