[Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Charles Andrès
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Gryllida
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

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Charles Andrès, 07/03/2014 09:35: I've been surprised by the increase in january 2014 comparing to december 2013. You really shouldn't. It happens each January, check better. :) Jan 2014+8% 76273 Jan 2013+7% 78717 Jan 2012+6% 79000 etc. Nemo

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Anders Wennersten
And the same pattern on sv:wp. The first weeks of January is consistently over the years the most active period in a year. It is the time before Universities starts and after Christmas and New Year. Lowest activity, also consistently over the years, is on Dec 24, and the two weeks after

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Steven Walling
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:35 AM, Charles Andrès charles.andres.w...@gmail.com wrote: TLDR:transform the thank you campaign after the fundraising in a Thank you campaign: became an editor We've tried this before and so far it hasn't worked very well. See results from 2012-13 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Federico Leva (Nemo)
Charles Andrès, 07/03/2014 11:20: Yes, it's what I mean by I notice that every winter we have these increase of editors , most probably due to the fundraising campaign. That's certainly not the reason, as Anders explained and as can easily be seen in stats. 1) January is consistently the

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Bohdan Melnychuk
Yeah I'd rather log in/register than would eye these banners :) --Base 07.03.2014 12:32, Federico Leva (Nemo) написав(ла): Charles Andrès, 07/03/2014 11:20: Yes, it's what I mean by I notice that every winter we have these increase of editors , most probably due to the fundraising campaign.

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Nathan
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:28 AM, Steven Walling steven.wall...@gmail.comwrote: We've tried this before and so far it hasn't worked very well. See results from 2012-13 at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Donor_engagement/Thank_You_campaign Generally speaking, we're moving away from

[Wikimedia-l] Language Engineering IRC Office Hour on March 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC

2014-03-07 Thread Runa Bhattacharjee
[x-posted] Hello, The Wikimedia Language Engineering team will be hosting the monthly IRC office hour on March 12, 2014 (Wednesday) at 1700 UTC/ 1000 PDT on #wikimedia-office. In this edition, we will be talking about our ongoing projects, like the Content Translation tool[1]. Also, we would

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Keegan Peterzell
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.comwrote: (though they did in the 2010-2011 WIKIPEDIA FOREVER campaign IIRC) Minor quibble: WIKIPEDIA FOREVER was 2009 :) THIS IS EVERYTHING WE KNOW -- Keegan Peterzell Community Liaison, Product Wikimedia Foundation

[Wikimedia-l] Call for volunteers - Individual Engagement Grants Committee

2014-03-07 Thread Steve Zhang
Hi all! At the moment, the Individual Engagement grant committee has an open call for volunteers :) We're looking for interested individuals who can put in some time each round (we have two rounds a year) to brainstorm with potential grantees, and help evaluate proposals for funding. The call

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Asaf Bartov
Another version of this that has been tried by WMF, more similar to Charles's second suggestion, is documented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Geo-targeted_Editors_Participation/report A. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Nathan nawr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-03-07 Thread Tilman Bayer
Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review of the Foundation's Wikipedia Zero team are now available at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Wikipedia_Zero/March_2014 . On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller e...@wikimedia.org wrote:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Quarterly reviews of high priority WMF initiatives

2014-03-07 Thread Samuel Klein
These quarterly reviews continue to be really interesting and useful. Thank you. SJ On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Tilman Bayer tba...@wikimedia.org wrote: Minutes and slides from Friday's quarterly review of the Foundation's Growth team are now available at

Re: [Wikimedia-l] More new editors?

2014-03-07 Thread Samuel Klein
Hello Charles, I like this idea. Individual wikis can try this out effectively, in many different ways, using geotargeting. I wonder what sort of data we can get out of such banners: can we track total views and clickthroughs? (Is it any easier to get such data out of central banners coordinated