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post 5.
incorporating responses to:
RL = Roger Luethi
RL: I haven't run into this editor before and cannot make authoritative statements, but a quick search shows that he made over 6000 main space edits in half a year, notabene in areas that we _want_ to cover and where we need experts to help out.
RL: He does seem to be involved in disputes on quite a few pages, it's hard to see through the mess. One (apparently retracted) 3RR block on June 12.
RL: Based on my quick research I can't rule out that Jon Awbrey's problems are worth investigating.
thank you for your considerate attention. i will try to make constructive use of it, no matter how difficult the issues involved.
enough has been said about the ordinary uses of exit interviews. indeed, just before my sense of futility became terminal, i had entertained the notion of starting a wikiproject to routinely collect the last wills and feedbacks of the dearly or direly departed membership in this conflagration, but i didn't yet know the ropes well enough to do that, and it doesn't look like i ever will. i believe a lot of useful information could be garnered that way, however easy it might be in some quarters to dismiss it all as the parting shots of disgruntled usurers and the socially net-warped. still, i think it might be a good idea, if there is anybody who is up to the challenge.
i started thinking about this idea when i happened across a page that was soliciting ideas for recruiting new members to wikipedia. from the experiences of people i know who are involved in college recruitment, i know that one of the issues that develops over time is that sometimes too much attention gets devoted to recruitment at the expense of due attention being paid to retention, and it looks to me like a similar problem may be affecting WP. for sure, your rolls are no doubt padded with with many, many registered users, but how many of them are still actually participating in any significant way?
it's something to think about.
jon awbrey
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