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
WikiProject Pittsburgh, all to no avail. I am still at a loss to try to
explain why we failed (i.e. why the meetups failed to contribute to
editor retention).
--
Piotr Konieczny
"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's
laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski
On 11/18/2012 10:58 PM, Kerry Raymond wrote:
I suspect that its only fairly well-entrenched editors who attend
meetups, but I agree it would be interesting data. I rather suspect
that meetups are advertised in ways unlikely to reach newer editors.
Sent from my iPad
On 19/11/2012, at 10:16 AM, Laura Hale <la...@fanhistory.com
<mailto: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
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