The retention problem isn't just relevant to new editors. Retaining
experienced Wikipedians is an equally substantial term in the equation.
Back to Laura's question: I don't know about any research of Wiki meetups,
but there's been research of everything2 meetups and potential effects on
I've been attending London Meetups for over three years, and anecdotally
I'd say there was a high correlation between repeat or even regular
attendance at meetups and editor retention. Of course it is possible there
are some editors who spot us, leave the pub and stop editing. I also
think
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 15:38:07 +, WereSpielChequers wrote:
Ive been attending London Meetups for over three years, and
anecdotally Id say there was a high correlation between repeat or
even
regular attendance at meetups and editor retention. Of course it is
possible there are some editors
Anecdotal evidence from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia suggests meetups are
not a safeguard against the local community dying out. Both places had
meetups, that eventually saw fewer and fewer people, and then stopped
entirely. For Pittsburgh I tried motivating people to participate in the
Not much left to add after Finn's list, but those may be interesting as
well:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Newsletter/2011/October#High_search_engine_rankings_of_Wikipedia_articles_found_to_be_justified_by_quality
(In 1000 queries, Yahoo showed the most Wikipedia results within the
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Laura Hale la...@fanhistory.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any research on Wikimedia meetups and the
effects on editor retention?
Sincerely,
Laura Hale
I know that at some point there was effort made in the WMF's Global
Development
List-defined references (WP:LDR) involve reducing the amount of code
dedicated to references in the main body, by moving most of it to the
bottom of the article (here's an example of a diff that showcases how
this works:
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Making a correlation between IRL meetings and activity is difficult unless
you do it by hand. And then there's the question of what you might use as a
control group as a basis for comparison.
I'd assume local
I met some of the Georgian editors last time I was in Tbilisi. They seem to
have a very tight community, there aren't many of them but that means they
are few enough that they can all work together on their topic of the month
. Which couldn't be more different from the London meetups where some of
Very true. The longer you hang around Wikipedia, the more people you
encounter who really piss you off. It's a very negative culture.
I think the lack of physicality is part of the problem. Having worked in
international standards and other similar battlegrounds, I know that the
most important
Hi Laura,
It so happens that I'm presently working on a software package (with a web
interface soon to come) that is aimed at facilitating exactly this type of
investigation.
It's a python package on github:
https://github.com/embr/userstats
And though it's still under development, it
I agree with Kerry that computer text offers a narrow pipe through which we can
barely come to know and trust other. That is why in developing Extreme
Programming (a kind of Agile) we asked that the whole team, including clients
and management, meet daily in person, preferably working together
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