The problem is simple. Our top contributors leave. Because the way things work makes it simply intolerable.
*25%* of all respondents [in a survey of contributors] said they stopped contributing because *"Some editors made Wikipedia a difficult place to work"* * * *(http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Former_Contributors_Survey_Results)* On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Ting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all: > > The Wikimedia Board of Trustees just completed its two-day meeting [1] > this weekend in Berlin. We devoted the longest time to discussing > declining trends in editing activity and our collective response to it. > I encourage everyone to review Sue’s March update [2], and the editor > trends study itself [3]. It is a deeply important topic, and each report > is only a few pages long. > > The Board thinks this is the most significant challenge currently facing > our movement. We would encourage the whole movement - the communities, > wikiprojects, Chapters, Board, Foundation staff - to think about ways to > meet this challenge. We know many contributors care about this and have > worked on outreach and hospitality in past years. We are considering how > we can help make such work more effective, and ask for suggestions from > the community to this problem now and to invite discussion and > suggestions [4]. > > Greetings, > Ting > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Board_meetings/March_25-26 > [2] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/March_2011_Update > [3] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editor_Trends_Study > [4] http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:March_2011_Update > > -- > Ting Chen > Member of the Board of Trustees > Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. > E-Mail: [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- *Mono* http://enwp.org/m:User:Mono _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
