[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Foundation Report, May 2012

[ENWP Pine]

Tilman,

Thanks for the report.

I would like to suggest that for the foreseeable future (not just for June), 
these monthly reports should include a fuller set of updates on the editor 
engagement and retention efforts. My understanding is that this is a high 
priority effort for WMF, it seems to involve a fairly significant number of 
WMF FTEs and LTEs, and I think it is of interest to the global Wikimedia 
community.

Personally I am very concerned about the continuing slide in the number of 
active editors. There are many areas on ENWP where having a few more active 
editors would be very helpful, and I speculate that other projects would 
also appreciate having additional active editors. My concerns are 
illustrated beautifully on some of the graphs here: 
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors", 
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors", and 
"http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors_target".

I would like to hear more about what progress is being made to improve the 
trends. We heard about the Teahouse and new initiatives for Arabic 
Wikipedia, which are very good, and I especially appreciated the detailed 
reports on the Teahouse pilot that were sent to ENWP participants' talk 
pages through "The Tea Leaf" newsletter, including links to 
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Host_lounge/Metrics" and 
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Teahouse/Pilot_report". I also 
appreciated reading about the progress of India communications and community 
support. I would like to hear more about what the projected effects of these 
initiatives will be on the editor statistics in the global report cards, 
have the projections compared to actuals, and get updates on these 
projections and actuals each month. The amount of staff and financial 
resources that are invested in editor engagement (including development of 
the visual editor), and the importance of the outcomes of those efforts for 
the movement and Wikimedia Strategic Plan priorities, are of significant 
interest to me and I imagine to many other members of the global Wikimedia 
community.

Thank you,

Pine