[Wikimedia-l] The new narrowed focus by WMF

[David Gerard]

On 21 October 2012 22:50, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.


Anecdotally, I see it turning a lot of smart people with friends into
anti-evangelists. I'm not sure how one would measure that, but I do
think it's bad enough to be a problem.


- d.