At risk of not quite answering the question: To keep our editors properly, we should make the software sufficiently reasonable and flexibly to automate routine work people encounter...
I couldn't get started at Wiktionary or Wikibooks easily due to my lack of linguistic or librarian background, and lack of tools to make elementary edits within such project scope — tools anyone can edit, using a standardized flexible framework, unlike the existing 'gadgets' which are so easy to break and difficult to write in a way which is easy to maintain, and share so little code. On Fri, 7 Mar 2014, at 19:35, Charles Andrès wrote: > TLDR:transform the thank you campaign after the fundraising in a "Thank you > campaign: became an editor" > > > Following a really nice discussion of the swiss mailing list, I had a look in > the statistics here: > http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediansEditsGt5.htm > > First, as unfortunately expected I notice the decrease between january 2013 > and 2014, but in the second time I've been surprised by the increase in > january 2014 comparing to december 2013. > > I first thought the large press coverage of the "decline of Wikipedia" had > an effect to motivate new editors, but when looking to these charts > http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/new_editors > > I notice that every winter we have these increase of editors , most probably > due to the fundraising campaign. > > But unfortunately, like for Wiki Loves Monuments effect, this increase of new > editors during a month is not enough to invert the tendency > http://reportcard.wmflabs.org/graphs/active_editors > > It has been discussed several time in the past, but I guess we should do it > again, how can we turned the fundraising campaign in a massive outreach > campaign? > > I have two leads, the easy one and the complex one :-) > > > The easy one would be to add to the thank you message an invitation to > join/meet/take information about users-group, thematic organisation or > chapters. This move may help to improve the retention by a face to face > approach. > > The complex one would be to develop a system to invite people to contribute > in specific article. > > The main point would be to transform the thank you campaign in a "Thank you > campaign: became an editor" > The idea is to display a banner inviting the reader to edit wikipedia. the > concept is the following: > identify the categories of the page currently displayed > select three articles in these categories with a template “expand” or similar > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Empty_section > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Expand_section > http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mod%C3%A8le:Section_vide_ou_incompl%C3%A8te > displayed a message like: > You can also help Wikipedia by expanding an article, here are three articles > that need your help, if you want to know how you can help, click on the topic > you like : > article from category one > article from category two > article from category three (or random category) > after the reader click on the article, send him to the section to expand: > in edit mode, with a banner explaining the basics of editing or > with visual editor displaying a banner explaining this mode > after publication of the article, a thank you banner, explaining how to > register, with a link to the create an account page > > > I start a page on meta to see if this idea can be > discuss/expand/improved/deployed > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_CH/outreach_fundraising_campaign > > > Thanks for your comment or your help, you can also took my idea , change it > totally and turn it in something doable! :-D > > > Charles > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
