On 02/09/14 10:56, Ricordisamoa wrote:
Il 26/08/2014 12:18, Craig Franklin ha scritto:
The editor retention problem will not be solved with technological
gizmos
and doodads, nor with top-down solutions imposed from above. It will be
solved with positive human contact and creating a collaborati
Il 26/08/2014 12:18, Craig Franklin ha scritto:
The editor retention problem will not be solved with technological gizmos
and doodads, nor with top-down solutions imposed from above. It will be
solved with positive human contact and creating a collaborative community
that people actually want to
Trying to radically change the NFCC guidelines, however desirable, is not
something which is likely to succeed.
Trying to somewhat simply image procedures might; I hope it could, because
I no longer even attempt to work with images. Though this is in large part
my own conceptually preference for te
I have coincidentally raised the question of fair-use images for living
people at the Gender Gap Taskforce talk page. Perhaps this is something we
shoudl take to the policy talk page?
On 26 August 2014 14:24, Tim Davenport wrote:
> David Goodman has this exactly right — new volunteers (as oppos
I too have seen some good results with the "thank" feature ( There are even
better results when I write something specific.) I agree with Anders that
the thank message is especially useful when sent to me, indicating that
something I did was understood--in my case, usually that if I accepted or
res
David Goodman has this exactly right — new volunteers (as opposed to casual
contributors) aren't made with templates of cookies or beer, they are
generally made one at a time, with personal attention and personal
assistance. Teahouse is one of the best ideas of the last five years, being
a place wh
The question here is about "editor retention".
Honestly we can say "thank you" or we can use a lot of emoticons but the
problem is always the same.
At the first error the "thank you" and the pink sweet world disappears.
There is always someone in the other side who is so gentle like the
elephant
I agree with Craig
The Thank function is not only good to give to new editors but also as a
measurement to what action is appreciated by new beginners
I frequently get thanks from new one after I have complemented,
wikiadjusted their articles (HELP is appreciated)
I never get a Thanks for
This is why the "thanks" mechanism needs to work for IP edits too.
(I submit that the hazard that we might accidentally be nice to
someone we didn't mean to is not a sufficient threat to block this.)
On 26 August 2014 11:18, Craig Franklin wrote:
> I agree with this wholeheartedly. When I think
I agree with this wholeheartedly. When I think back to when I was new on
Wikipedia, pretty early on I got an honest-to-god personal message from
someone to thank me for correcting a typo (
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Lankiveil&diff=5647166&oldid=5629943
).
It made me feel
I have seen good results with the "thank" feature. It is easy to use and seems
appreciated. When thanked users write to me in response, I have noticed that a
specific and neutral "I read your edits about xyz and appreciate them" seems to
be more likely to encourage more edits about xyz rather th
On 26 August 2014 02:09, David Goodman wrote:
> Perhaps the best way of doing this is the admittedly laborious method of
> personally communicating with new editors who seem promising and
> encouraging them and offering to help them continue. The key word in this
> is "personally". It cannot be e
Perhaps the best way of doing this is the admittedly laborious method of
personally communicating with new editors who seem promising and
encouraging them and offering to help them continue. The key word in this
is "personally". It cannot be effectively done with wikilove messages ,
and certainly
Wikimedia ch is doing a big investment in supporting communities.
There are three community liaisons (a third hired recently) to support the
three national languages which are also within the biggest linguistic
communities.
Anyway there is not a unique solution to be adapted easily in user
retent
Thanks James for addressing such a crucial issue. It is a vital matter but
being discussed far less than other topics, in offline or offline programs,
activities. Among measures fore retaining editors, there were some banners
that appeared on top of articles viewed by new editors or readers. I've
h
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 6:55 PM, James Salsman wrote:
> Is there a list somewhere of all currently active Foundation
> initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
> aware of the one project, "Task Recommendations," to try to encourage
> editors who have made a few edits to
Hoi.
I had a look at the youtube video. Really important in this context is the
presentation by Dario. In it he shows how editing is taking of from mobile
users using tablets. This is a recent shift but the implication as I see it
that working on better tooling for mobile / tablet editors will get
Is there a list somewhere of all currently active Foundation
initiatives for attracting and retaining active editors? I am only
aware of the one project, "Task Recommendations," to try to encourage
editors who have made a few edits to make more, described starting at
https://www.youtube.com/watch
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