[Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

[Thomas Dalton]

On 21 October 2012 22:29, Dan Rosenthal <swatjester at gmail.com> wrote:
> The connection is that it is an example of the significantly more
> negative/hostile environment and failure of en.wp's governance structure
> that harms editor retention; this is something that could have been studied
> and reported on by the Fellowship program. Basically, it's a specific
> example of a broader problem that would be perfect for Fellows to look at,
> were the program to continue. I was not advocating that the WMF be involved
> in Malleus's specific debate.

As I understand it, the biggest problem with editor retention at the
moment is the second edit. By that point, they haven't had any
interaction with our governance structure, so that can't really be the
cause.