Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

Some of these things are more difficult to test than others, and indeed some are easier to resolve than others. I'm pretty sure that we lose a lot of new editors due to edit conflicts. I suspect we can define the people who become active editors as being the people who learn how to resolve edit

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

I don't want to stop the conversation and just want to thank you all for the great input so far. I have not been able to read it all yet, but I hope I get to do it soon :-) Jan 2017-03-23 7:06 GMT+01:00 Kerry Raymond : > > A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former

Re: [Wiki-research-l] Editors: research on transitions, learning over time, leaving

> A few years ago the WMF did a survey of former editors, partly to > learn why they'd left. One of the most common responses was "I haven't left > yet". With the benefit of hindsight (a wonderful thing), that might be a bad way to have asked the question. A better way might have been to ask